''Oshunia'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric

bony fish Osteichthyes (), popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes, which have skeletons primarily composed of cartilag ...

that lived during the Albian. Fossils of the genus were found in the

Romualdo Formation The Romualdo Formation is a geologic Konservat-Lagerstätte in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together. The geological formation, previously designated as the Romualdo Member of the Sa ...

of the Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil.''Oshunia''
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.org Other authors assign a

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

age to the fish.

References

* S. Wenz and A. W. A. Kellner. 1986. Découverte du premier Ionoscopidae (Pisces, Halecomorphi) sud-américain, ''Oshunia brevis'' n.g., n.sp., dans le Crétacé inférieur de la Chapada do Araripe (nord-est du Brésil). Bulletin du Museum national d'historie naturelle. Section C. Sciences de la terre, paleontologie, geologie, mineralogie 8(1):77-88 Ionoscopiformes Early Cretaceous fish Prehistoric fish of South America Early Cretaceous animals of South America Albian life Cretaceous Brazil Fossils of Brazil Romualdo Formation Fossil taxa described in 1986 Taxa named by Alexander Kellner {{Cretaceous-fish-stub

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