Name: Dunyu.
Phonetic: Dun-yoo.
Named By: Min Zhu, Yu-Hai Liu, Lian-Tao Jia
& Zhi-Kun Gai - 2012.
Classification: Chordata, Galeaspida,
Eugaleaspidiformes.
Species: D. longiforus
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: China, Yunnan Province -
Kuanti Formation.
Time period: Late Silurian.
Fossil representation: Head shield.
Dunyu is a genus of jawless fish that lived in the waters around what is now China during the Silurian.
Further reading
- A new genus of eugaleaspidiforms (Agnatha: Galeaspida) from
the Ludlow, Silurian of Qujing, Yunnan, Southwestern China. -
Vertebrata PalAsiatica 50 (1): 1–7. - Min Zhu, Yu-Hai
Liu, Lian-Tao Jia & Zhi-Kun Gai - 2012.