''Changxingia'' is a
genus of
prehistoric
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...
lobe-finned fish that belonged to the
coelacanth family
Mawsoniidae. It lived during the
Late Permian in
Zhejiang, southern China.
It contains two species, ''C. aspiratilis'' (the type species) and ''C. weii'', which were named in 1981 and 1997 from specimens found at the same locality. They are the first Permian marine coelacanths found in Asia.
References
Permian bony fish
Late Permian fish
Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera
Prehistoric animals of China
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