''Phymolepis'' is an extinct

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of yunnanolepidid placoderm from the Early Devonian of

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. The type species, ''P. cuifengshanensis'', was named by Zhang Goroui in

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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.Zhang, G. (1978). The antiarchs from the Early Devonian of Yunnan. ''Vertebrata PalAsiatica''. 1978;16:147–186. and was re-evaluated in

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, while a second species, ''P. guoruii'', was named and described in 1996. The holotype of ''P. cuifengshanensis'' is IVPP V4225.3, a nearly complete trunk shield, and it was found in the

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, near Cuifengshan. The paratype is IVPP V4425.6, a posterior median dorsal plate, and several other specimens of varying completeness have also been referred to ''Phymolepis'', with some specimens also being recovered from the

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Placoderms Fossil taxa described in 1978 {{placoderm-stub