Decazella is an extinct genus of prehistoric 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).[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Aeduelliformes |
| Family: | †Aeduellidae |
| Genus: | †Decazella Heyler, 1967 |
| Species: | †D. vetteri
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| †Decazella vetteri (Heyler, 1964)
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See also
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References
edit- ^ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ Štamberg, Stanislav (2018). "Actinopterygians of the Permian locality Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbon-l'Archambault Basin, France) and their relationship to other early actinopterygians | Fossil Imprint" (PDF). Fossil Imprint (in Czech). 74 (3–4): 245–291. doi:10.2478/if-2018-0017.
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