Hongkongichthys youngi Wang 1997 (lobe-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Osteolepidiformes - Tristichopteridae

Full reference: N. Wang. 1997. Taxonomic names, in Devonian lobe-finned fishes and ray-finned fishes of Plover Cove, Hong Kong. Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Hong Kong. Vol. 1 55-62

Belongs to Hongkongichthys according to N. Wang 1997

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IVPP V11486, a dermal scale. Its type locality is PCR-16, Plover Cove Reservoir, which is in a Devonian/Devonian deltaic siliciclastic in the Bluff Head Formation of Hong Kong.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at PCR-16, Plover Cove Reservoir

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