''Yiminaspis shenme'' is a species of primitive
arthrodire
Arthrodira (Greek for "jointed neck") is an order of extinct armored, jawed fishes of the class Placodermi that flourished in the Devonian period before their sudden extinction, surviving for about 50 million years and penetrating most marine eco ...
placoderm from
Emsian
The Emsian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 407.6 ± 2.6 million years ago to 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago. It was preceded by the Pragian Stage and followed by the Eifelian Stage. It is named after the ...
-aged marine strata in
Yunnan
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, China. It is closely related to ''
Wuttagoonaspis'' of Middle
Devonian Australia. ''Y. shenme'' is known from a flattened partial skull and portions of the thoracic armor.
Etymology
The genus name translates as "
Yi People
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's shield", deriving from the
Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
name ''Yímín'' (, an ethnic group in China, Vietnam, and Thailand) and the
Greek
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word ''
aspis'' ("a type of round shield"). The specific name is from Chinese ''shénme'' (), as in "what is it?" reference to the peculiar anatomy of this prehistoric fish.
References
Fossil taxa described in 2008
Wuttagoonaspidae
Placoderms of Asia
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