Fanjingshania

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Fanjingshania
Temporal range:
Ma
Fossil specimen, pectoral girdle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 "

sclerotic plates, trunk scales, and tectal and postorbital tesserae. No teeth were ascribed to the taxon, but in the same horizon the tooth taxon Qianodus was found, and these taxa may be synonymous. In a phylogenetic analysis accompanying the description, it was placed in a clade with Climatius, Parexus, and Ptomacanthus.[1]

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