Fanjingshania

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Fanjingshania
Temporal range: Llandovery
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Fossil specimen, pectoral girdle
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Acanthodii
Order: Climatiiformes
Genus: Fanjingshania
Plamen S. Andreev, 2022
Species:
F. renovata
Binomial name
Fanjingshania renovata
Plamen S. Andreev, 2022

Fanjingshania is an extinct genus of acanthodian from the lower Silurian of China, making it currently the oldest known acanthodian.[1] It comprises a single species, Fanjingshania renovata.

References

  1. ^ Andreev, Plamen S.; Sansom, Ivan J.; Li, Qiang; Zhao, Wenjin; Wang, Jianhua; Wang, Chun-Chieh; Peng, Lijian; Jia, Liantao; Qiao, Tuo; Zhu, Min (September 2022). "Spiny chondrichthyan from the lower Silurian of South China". Nature. 609 (7929): 969–974. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05233-8.