Hongyu

Hongyu, represented by its type species Hongyu chowi, is an extinct Devonian lobe-finned fish. About 1.5 m in length, it resembles both Elpistostegalia and Rhizodontida, making its phylogenetic placement uncertain.[1] The type specimen was discovered in the Zhongning Formation near Ningxia in China’s North China Block.[2]

Hongyu Temporal range: Famennian 370–360 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapodomorpha
Genus:	†Hongyu Zhu et al., 2017
Species:	†H. chowi
Binomial name
†Hongyu chowi Zhu et al., 2017

References

1. "Weird fish fossil changes the story of how we moved onto land". New Scientist. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
2. Zhu, Min; Ahlberg, Per (2017). "A Devonian tetrapod-like fish reveals substantial parallelism in stem tetrapod evolution". Nature. 1 (October 2017): 1470–1476. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0293-5. PMID 29185516.