Nielsenia
Appearance
Nielsenia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Dipnoi |
Family: | †Phaneropleuridae |
Genus: | †Nielsenia Lehman, 1959 |
Type species | |
†Nielsenia nordica Lehman, 1959
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Nielsenia is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish which lived during the Devonian period in what is now Greenland. It is named after Eigil Nielsen.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Lehman, Jean Pierre (1959). "Les dipneustes du Dévonien supérieur du Groenland". Meddelelser om Grønland (in French). 160: 1–58.