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)

Taxonomic list

Placodermi
 Antiarchiformes - Bothriolepididae
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