A New Discovery of Colobodus Agassiz, 1844(Colobodontidae) from the Carnian(Upper Triassic) of Guizhou, South China

Objective Critical review of the Colobodontidae reveals that this family has important research value.Colobodontidae was universally accepted as a significant taxon among all Triassic ichthyolite in 2002.However,most colobodontids are probably confined to the Anisian and Ladinian in the western Tethys (Mutter,2004).This work describes a well-preserved colobodontid discovered in Guizhou,South China,which sheds new light on its distribution and