Potangaspis
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Potangaspis is an extinct genus of placoderm fish
which existed in China
during the Devonian
period. It was first named by Zhu Min, Wang Jun-qing, and Wang Shi-tao in 2010, and the type species is Potangaspis parvoculatus.
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
which existed in China
China
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during the Devonian
Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...
period. It was first named by Zhu Min, Wang Jun-qing, and Wang Shi-tao in 2010, and the type species is Potangaspis parvoculatus.