Wuding area, Wufengshan, Jiucheng unit (Devonian of China)
Where: China (25.5° N, 102.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 129.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Jiucheng Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)
• Late Emsian, overlain by the Haikou unit
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Liu. 1994. On the Middle Devonian series of Wuding, Yunnan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 32:32-40more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 238391: authorized by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, entered by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland on 23.01.2025
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Wufengshania magniforaminis Pan et al. 2018 armour-plated fish Holotype. IVPP V 23293 (Fig. 2A), a near-complete skull with a minor part of the right half missing. Paratype. IVPP V 23294 (Fig. 2B), a near-complete skull with part of the right lateral plate missing
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