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{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
{{For|town in Bulgaria|Mizia (town)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [[Emsian]]
| image = Mizia longhuaensis.jpg
| image_caption = ''M. longhuaensis''
| taxon = Mizia
| authority =
| type_species = ''Mizia longhuaensis''
| type_species_authority = Zhu, 1996
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
* ''M. longhuaensis'' <small>Zhu, 1996</small>
* ''M. parvus'' <small>(Zhang Guorui 1978)</small>
| synonyms =
*''[[Yunnanolepis]] parvus'' <small>Zhang Guorui 1978</small>
}}
'''''Mizia''''' is a genus of primitive [[antiarch]] [[placoderm]] found in [[Emsian]]-aged marine strata of Early [[Devonian]] [[China]].
==Species==
===''Mizia longhuaensis''===
The only known specimen is of a mostly complete thoracic armor from the [[Xujiachong Formation]] in [[Qujing]], [[Yunnan]].<ref name="Zhu">{{cite journal | title=The Phylogeny of Antiarcha (Placodermi, Pisces), with the Description of Early Devonian Antiarchs from Qujing, Yunnan, China. | author=Min, Zhu. | url=http://www.geol.umd.edu/undergraduates/paper/paper_kearsley.pdf | journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle | year=1996 | volume=18 | pages=233–347 | access-date=2013-12-29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623021627/http://www.geol.umd.edu/undergraduates/paper/paper_kearsley.pdf | archive-date=2012-06-23 | url-status=dead }}</ref>  The armor is very similar to that of ''[[Yunnanolepis]]'', but is distinguished by a unique floral pattern of raised ridges and grooves radiating from a point at the center of the dorsal shield of the thoracic armor.  A similar pattern is seen on the thoracic armor of the [[Vietnam]]ese ''[[Vukhuclepis]]''.  ''M. longhuaensis''<nowiki>'</nowiki> armor is further ornamented with small tubercles.
===''Mizia parvus''===
Originally described as ''[[Yunnanolepis]] parvus''.  Min Zhu reexamined specimens of ''Y. parvus'', and found the armor, in addition to being rather different from the armor seen in ''Yunnanolepis'', to be more anatomically similar to the holotype of ''M. longhuaensis'', and placed it into ''Mizia''.<ref name=Zhu />
==References==
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[[Category:Placoderm genera]]
[[Category:Placoderms of Asia]]
[[Category:Antiarchi]]
[[Category:Prehistoric animals of China]]
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