Wufengshan hill, Wuding area, Jiucheng unit (Devonian of China)

Where: China (25.5° N, 102.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.4° S, 89.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Jiucheng Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (399.5 - 393.5 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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Placodermi
 Antiarcha - Bothriolepidae
Wudinolepis weni1 Chang 1965 armour-plated fish
 Antiarchiformes - Bothriolepididae
Wufengshania magniforaminis1 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
 Arthrodira -
Exutaspis megista1 Liu and Wang 1981 armour-plated fish
 Arthrodira - Holonematidae
Holonema sp.1 Newberry 1890 armour-plated fish
 Arthrodira - Dunkleosteidae
Xiangshuiosteus wui2 Wang 1992 armour-plated fish
 Arthrodira -
Yinosteus major1 Wang and Wang 1984 armour-plated fish