Sultanuvaisia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Speciesbox | name = ''Sultanuvaisia antiqua'' | fossil_range = Late Cretaceous | parent_authority = Nessov, 1981 | taxon = Sultanuvaisia antiqua | authority = Nessov, 1981 }}

'''''Sultanuvaisia''''' is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl Kum, central Asia. It was named by Lev Nessov in 1981.<ref name=LAN81>{{cite journal |last=Nessov |first=Lev A. |year=1981 |title=[Flying reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl-Kum] |journal=Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal |volume=15 |pages=98–104 |language=Russian}}</ref> At first, he tentatively described the fossil material as jaw fragments of a ctenochasmatid pterosaur (a flying reptile),<ref name=LAN81/> but reinterpreted ''Sultanuvaisia'' as a fish in 1986.<ref name=LAN86>{{cite book |last=Nessov |first=Lev A. |year=1986 |chapter=[The first finding of the Late Cretaceous bird Ichthyornis in the old world and some other bird bones from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Middle Asia] |pages=31–38 |editor=Potapova, R. L.|title=[Ecological and Faunistic Investigations of Birds. Proceedings of the Geological Institute, Leningrad] 147 |language=Russian}}</ref> The type species is ''S. antiqua''.<ref name=LAN81/>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090106112253/http://archosauria.org/pterosauria/taxonomy/species.pdf The Pterosaur Species List, 3rd Edition (pdf)]. Compiled by Michael Hanson.

Category:Ichthyodectiformes Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Cretaceous bony fish Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia Category:Fossil taxa described in 1981