| Hongyu Temporal range: Famennian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Genus: | †Hongyu Zhu et al., 2017 |
| Species: | †H. chowi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hongyu chowi Zhu et al., 2017
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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]
- ^ "Weird fish fossil changes the story of how we moved onto land". New Scientist. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
- ^ Zhu, Min; Ahlberg, Per (2017). "A Devonian tetrapod-like fish reveals substantial parallelism in stem tetrapod evolution". Nature. 1 (October 2017): 1470–1476. Bibcode:2017NatEE...1.1470Z. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0293-5. PMID 29185516. S2CID 256703683.