Fayolia
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Genus: | †Fayolia Renault & Zeiller, 1884
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†Fayolia dentata Renault & Zeiller, 1884
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Fayolia is a prehistoric shark egg capsule morphotype of the family Xenacanthidae. It is predominantly known from freshwater deposits with a stratigraphic range from the Late Devonian to the Triassic. A new species, Fayolia sharovi, was described in 2011 from lacustrine deposits of the Middle Triassic Madygen Formation in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia.