Miguashaia bureaui (Schultze 1973, Cloutier 1996; Middle Devonian; up to 45cm) was traditionally considered the sister group (outgroup) of the Actinista (coelocanths). Notably Miguashaia retains a heterocercal tail and it is usually reconstructed with lobe fins (see diagram above). The maxilla was considered taphonomically missing, but the premaxilla is wide. The dentary in the reconstruction is a standard coelacanth design, not what we see in this fossil in situ.

Here this specimen is reinterpreted as a Devonian 'flounder' with a wide skull, a tremendous underbite and an torso axially rotate 90º to lie flat of the sea floor, like a flounder. Lateral fins are missing, perhaps due to taphonomy. Phylogenetically it matches larger Middle Devonian taxa lacking post-crania.

Dialipina salgueiroensis (D. markae Schultze 1968; Schultze 1992; Schultze and Cumbaa 2001; Early Devonian. 420 mya) is the earliest known bony fish known from a complete skeleton. See Miguashaia image above. It was orignally considered a palaeonisciform. Here this traditional coelacanth nests with Miguashaia and Bianchengichthys. The proposed straight traditional coelacanth tail is instead a displaced dorsal shield with a pointed posterior end. The torso is torsioned relative to the flat, wide skull, which does not resemble the skull alone shown directly above. Misidentified?