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Broughia
Temporal range: Induan[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Parasemionotiformes
Family: Parasemionotidae
Genus: Broughia
Stensiö, 1932
Species:
B. perleididoides
Binomial name
Broughia perleididoides
Stensiö, 1932

Broughia is an extinct genus of marine holostean ray-finned fish that lived during the Induan age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Greenland.[1] Fossils were found in the Wordie Creek Formation. A potential concurrent record is also known from Madagascar.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.