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Early Devonian fish material from Posongchong Formation of Guangnan, Yunnan, China

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  • (1 Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology, Institute of Palaeontology, Yunnan University  Kunming 650500) 
    (2 Yunnan Institute of Geological Survey  Kunming 650216)
    (3 Qujing Normal University  Qujing 655000)
    (4 Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 100044)
    (5 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 100044)
    Xian and Mo, co-first author    *Corresponding author: zhumin@ivpp.ac.cn

Online published: 2026-02-06

Abstract

New findings of early vertebrates, including placoderms, sarcopterygians, and the galeaspids Sanqiaspis rostrata, Macrothyraspis longicornis, Gantarostraspis gengi, Wenshanaspis sp., are described from Posongchong Formation (Pragian, Lower Devonian) in Zhujie, Guangnan County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China. The new specimen of Macrothyraspis longicornis exhibits the ventral side of its headshield, revealing a large branchial chamber encompassed by a very narrow ventral rim. The material of Yunnanolepidoidei and Petalichthyida represents the first fossil record of placoderms from Wenshan Prefecture, southwestern Yunnan. These new findings enrich the fish diversity of the Pragian Xujiachong Vertebrate Assemblage and provide additional paleoichthyological data for the biostratigraphic correlation between Posongchong Formation and its coeval strata in southwestern China and northern Vietnam.

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XIAN Zu-Min, MO Xiong, GUAN Qi, ZHAO Ying-Tian, XUE Qin-Yuan, LI Qiang, LIU Jun-Ping, ZHU Min . Early Devonian fish material from Posongchong Formation of Guangnan, Yunnan, China[J]. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 0 : 1 . DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.260206

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