Aesopichthys erinaceus Poplin and Lund 2000 (ray-finned fish)

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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