''Yunnanolepis'' is an extinct genus of primitive

antiarch Antiarchi ("opposite anus") is an order of heavily armored placoderms. The antiarchs form the second-most successful group of placoderms after the arthrodires in terms of numbers of species and range of environments. The order's name was coin ...

placoderm Placoderms (from Ancient Greek πλάξ 'plax'', ''plakos'''Plate (animal anatomy), plate' and δέρμα 'derma'''skin') are vertebrate animals of the class (biology), class Placodermi, an extinct group of prehistoric fish known from Pal ...

. The fossils of the various species are found in Early to Middle

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

strata in Southern

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

( Xishancun, Lianhuashan and

Xitun Formation The Xitun Formation is a paleontology, palaeontological formation which is named after Xitun village in Qujing, a location in Northern and southern China, South China. This formation includes many remains of fossilized fish and plants of the Earl ...

s).

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''Yunnanolepis''
at the

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Antiarchi Placoderm genera Placoderms of Asia Lochkovian life Fossils of China Paleontology in Yunnan Fossil taxa described in 1963 {{placoderm-stub