Decazella

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|301.0|300.4|Gzhelian}}

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| taxon = Decazella vetteri

| parent_authority = Heyler, 1967

| authority = (Heyler, 1964)

| synonyms = * {{extinct}}Aeduella vetteri Heyler, 1964

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Decazella is an extinct genus of 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).{{Cite journal |last1=Gonçalves |first1=D. |last2=Luccisano |first2=V. |last3=Rebillard |first3=A. |last4=Logghe |first4=A. |last5=Štamberg |first5=S. |last6=Steyer |first6=J.-S.|title=New aquatic vertebrate and ichnological remains from the Upper Carboniferous of Decazeville (Aveyron, France): implications for the paleofauna of the French Variscan basins |year=2025 |journal=Comptes Rendus PalEvol |volume=24 |issue=11 |pages=191-217 |doi=10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a11 |doi-access=free }}{{cite book |last1=Schultze |first1=Hans-Peter |last2=Mickle |first2=Kathryn E. |last3=Poplin |first3=Cecile |last4=Hilton |first4=Eric J. |last5=Grande |first5=Lance |date=2021 |title=Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei |publisher=Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München |pages=299 |isbn=978-3-89937-272-4}}{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=461576&is_real_user=1 |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=paleobiodb.org}}{{Cite journal |author=Štamberg |first=Stanislav |date=2018 |title=Actinopterygians of the Permian locality Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbon-l'Archambault Basin, France) and their relationship to other early actinopterygians {{!}} Fossil Imprint |url=https://zenodo.org/records/4586509/files/source.pdf |journal=Fossil Imprint |language=cs-CZ |volume=74 |issue=3–4 |pages=245–291 |doi=10.2478/if-2018-0017 |access-date=}}