{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = Middle Frasnian, {{Fossil range|385|374}} | taxon = Fleurantia denticulata | authority = Graham-Smith & Westoll, 1937 | parent_authority = Graham-Smith & Westoll, 1937 }}
'''''Fleurantia''''' is a genus of prehistoric marine lungfish which lived during the Devonian period of North America.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fossilworks: Fleurantia denticulata |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=372954 |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Paleobiology Database}}</ref> It contains a single species, '''''F. denticulata''''', known from several partially articulated specimens from the Escuminac Formation of Quebec, Canada.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Graham-Smith |first1=W. |last2=Westoll |first2=T. S. |date=1937 |title=VIII.—On a New Long-headed Dipnoan Fish from the Upper Devonian of Scaumenac Bay, P.Q., Canada |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/abs/viiion-a-new-longheaded-dipnoan-fish-from-the-upper-devonian-of-scaumenac-bay-pq-canada/6C9CB90FB7F0D36F501EB7ABCAA3C883 |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |language=en |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=241–266 |doi=10.1017/S0080456800004749 |issn=2053-5945|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marshall |first=Charles R. |date=1986 |title=A list of fossil and extant dipnoans |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmor.1051900405 |journal=Journal of Morphology |language=en |volume=190 |issue=S1 |pages=15–23 |doi=10.1002/jmor.1051900405 |issn=1097-4687|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Potential remains of ''Fleurantia'' have also been recovered from the Devonian-aged Red Hill locality of Nevada, USA.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Reed |first=John Wallace |date=1985 |title=Devonian Dipnoans from Red Hill, Nevada |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1305011 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=59 |issue=5 |pages=1181–1193 |jstor=1305011 |issn=0022-3360}}</ref>
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Category:Prehistoric lungfish genera Category:Devonian sarcopterygians of North America Category:Frasnian genera Category:Fossils of Canada Category:Fossil taxa described in 1937
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