†Aesopichthys erinaceus Poplin and Lund 2000 (ray-finned fish)
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Osteichthyes - Aesopichthyidae
Full reference: C. Poplin and R. Lund. 2000. Two new deep-bodied palaeoniscoid actinopterygians from Bear Gulch (Montana, USA, Lower Carboniferous). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):428-449
Belongs to Aesopichthys according to C. Poplin and R. Lund 2000
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CM 48550, a skeleton. Its type locality is Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection), which is in an Arnsbergian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (8: Montana collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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