Phymolepis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Early Devonian, {{fossilrange|Lochkovian}} | image = Phymolepis cuifengshanensis.PNG | image_caption = ''Phymolepis cuifengshanensis'' restoration | taxon = Phymolepis | authority = Zhang, 1978 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Phymolepis cuifengshanensis''''' | type_species_authority = Zhang, 1978 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision = *{{extinct}}''P. guoruii'' <small>Zhu, 1996</small> }}

'''''Phymolepis''''' is an extinct genus of yunnanolepidid placoderm from the Early Devonian of China.<ref name=Chang78 /> The type species, '''''P. cuifengshanensis''''', was named by Zhang Goroui in 1978<ref name=Chang78>Chang, K-J. (1978). Symposium on the Devonian System of South China: Early devonian antiarchs from Cuifengshan, Yunnan. ''Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences'', ed. Geological Press; Beijing: 1978; pp. 292–297.</ref><ref name=Zhang78>Zhang, G. (1978). The antiarchs from the Early Devonian of Yunnan. ''Vertebrata PalAsiatica''. 1978;16:147–186.</ref> and was re-evaluated in 2018,<ref name=wang>{{Cite journal|author1=Yajing Wang |author2=Min Zhu |year=2018 |title=Redescription of ''Phymolepis cuifengshanensis'' (Antiarcha: Yunnanolepididae) using high-resolution computed tomography and new insights into anatomical details of the endocranium in antiarchs |journal=PeerJ |volume=6 |article-number=e4808 |doi=10.7717/peerj.4808 |pmid=29868260 |pmc=5978403 |doi-access=free }}</ref> while a second species, ''P. guoruii'', was named and described in 1996.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Zhu |first=Min |date=1996-01-01 |title=The phylogeny of the Antiarcha (Placodermi, Pisces), with the description of Early Devonian antiarchs from Qujing, Yunnan, China |url=https://www.academia.edu/1806944 |journal=Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. |series=4e Série}}</ref>

The holotype of ''P. cuifengshanensis'' is IVPP V4225.3, a nearly complete trunk shield, and it was found in the Xitun Formation, near Cuifengshan.<ref name=Zhang78 /> The paratype is IVPP V4425.6, a posterior median dorsal plate, and several other specimens of varying completeness have also been referred to ''Phymolepis'',<ref name=wang /> with some specimens also being recovered from the Xishancun Formation.<ref name=":6" />

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Category:Placoderms Category:Fossil taxa described in 1978