Sultanuvaisia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Genus: | Sultanuvaisia Nesov, 1981
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Sultanuvaisia is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform teleost ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl Kum, central Asia. It was named by Lev Nesov in 1981.[1] At first, he tentatively described the fossil material as jaw fragments of a ctenochasmatid pterosaur (a flying reptile),[1] but reinterpreted Sultanuvaisia as a fish in 1986.[2] The type species is S. antiqua.[1]