Decazella

Decazella; Temporal range: Gzhelian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Aeduelliformes
Family:	†Aeduellidae
Genus:	†Decazella; Heyler, 1967
Species:	†D. vetteri
Binomial name
	†Decazella vetteri; (Heyler, 1964)
Synonyms
	†Aeduella vetteri Heyler, 1964;

Decazella is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the late Carboniferous period. It contains a single species, D. vetteri from the Gzhelian (Stephanian) age of what is now Occitania, France (near Decazeville).^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
^ Štamberg, Stanislav (2018). "Actinopterygians of the Permian locality Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbon-l'Archambault Basin, France) and their relationship to other early actinopterygians | Fossil Imprint" (PDF). Fossil Imprint (in Czech). 74 (3–4): 245–291. doi:10.2478/if-2018-0017.

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