Nielsenia

Short description: Extinct genus of fishes

Nielsenia

Temporal range: Late Devonian

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Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Chordata

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Sarcopterygii

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Dipnoi

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†Phaneropleuridae

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†Nielsenia

Binomial name
†Nielsenia nordica

Lehman, 1959

Nielsenia is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish which lived during the Devonian period in what is now Greenland. It is named after Eigil Nielsen.[1]

## References

1. ↑ Lehman, Jean Pierre (1959). "Les dipneustes du Dévonien supérieur du Groenland". Meddelelser om Grønland 160: 1-58.

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*[†]: Extinct