Paranursallia

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| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Turonian), {{Fossil range|95|90}}

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| image_caption = Fossil vomer from the Akrabou Formation

| taxon = Paranursallia

| authority = Taverne et al., 2015

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Paranursallia is an extinct genus of nursalline pycnodont fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch.

Distribution

Fossilised remains of Paranursallia spinosa are known from Tunisia, while those of Paranursallia gutturosa are known from Mexico,{{Cite journal |last1=Pacheco-Ordaz |first1=S. |last2=Reyes-López |first2=Á. |last3=Alvarado-Ortega |first3=J. |year=2025 |title=A Turonian pycnodontiform fish from the San José de Gracia quarry, Puebla, Mexico |journal=Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana |volume=77 |issue=1 |at=A241224 |doi=10.18268/BSGM2023v77n1a241224 |doi-broken-date=1 July 2025}} Italy,{{Cite journal |last1=AMALFITANO |first1=JACOPO |last2=GIUSBERTI |first2=LUCA |last3=FORNACIARI |first3=ELIANA |last4=CARNEVALE |first4=GIORGIO |date=2020-04-03 |title=Upper Cenomanian Fishes from the Bonarelli Level (Oae2) of Northeastern Italy |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/13224 |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=126 |issue=2 |language=en |pages=Vol. 126 No 2 (2020) |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13224}} and Morocco.{{Cite journal |last1=Taverne |first1=Louis |last2=Layeb |first2=Mohsen |last3=Layeb-Tounsi |first3=Yosra |last4=Gaudant |first4=Jean |date=2015 |title=Paranursallia spinosa n. gen., n. sp., a new Upper Cretaceous pycnodontiform fish from the Eurafrican Mesogea |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.5252/g2015n2a3 |journal=Geodiversitas |language=en |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=215–227 |doi=10.5252/g2015n2a3 |issn=1280-9659}}

References

Category:Pycnodontiformes genera

Category:Late Cretaceous bony fish

Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Africa

Category:Cretaceous fish of Europe

Category:Fish described in 2015

Category:Pycnodontiformes