Lyhoalepis
| Lyhoalepis Temporal range: Emsian
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Family: | †Phlyctaeniidae |
| Genus: | †Lyhoalepis |
| Species: | †L. duckhoai
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lyhoalepis duckhoai Janvier, Tông-Dzuy & Doàn Nhât 1994
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Lyhoalepis duckhoai is an arthrodire placoderm fish, which lived during the Early Devonian period in what is now Central Vietnam. Its fossils are found in the Emsian-aged Ly Hoa Formation.[1][2]
References
- ^ Janvier, P., Tông-Dzuy, T., Doàn Nhât, T., 1994. Devonian fishes from Viet Nam: new data form CentralViet Nam and their palaeobiogeographical significance. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Stratigraphic Correlation of Southeast Asia, Bangkok, pp. 69–74.
- ^ Janvier, P., Tông-Dzuy, T., Phuong, T.H., Doàn Nhât, T., 1997. The Devonian vertebrates (Placodermi, Sarcopterygii) from Central Vietnam and their bearing on the Devonian palaeogeography of Southeast Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 15, 393–406.