''Broughia'' is an
extinct
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genus of marine
holostean ray-finned fish that lived during the
Induan age
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of the
Early Triassic epoch in what is now
Greenland.
Fossils were found in the
Wordie Creek Formation
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. A potential concurrent record is also known from
Madagascar.
See also
*
Prehistoric fish
*
List of prehistoric bony fish
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References
Parasemionotiformes
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Early Triassic fish
Triassic bony fish
Triassic fish of North America
Triassic fish of Africa
Induan genera
Fossils of Greenland
Fossils of Madagascar
Fossil taxa described in 1932
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