Amazinyomakhulu

Amazinyomakhulu is a genus of onychodont lobe-finned fish from the Devonian-aged Waterloo Farm lagerstätte of South Africa. The type and only known species, Amazinyomakhulu mallinsonia, is known from an isolated maxilla discovered in 2008, or upper jaw, and was described and named in 2026. Its upper jawbone had a hatcher shape, with a uniquely long articulation for the squamosal bone and a clear divide between a deep posterior section and slender forward projection that would have formed the bottom rim of a large eye. It has large teeth which were relatively low in number. Living in an estuary in a region that was near the South Pole in the Late Devonian, it is the last known onychodont in the fossil record and lived alongside some of the earliest tetrapods and a diverse assortment of other fish.