Aesopichthys
Aesopichthys ("Aesop fish") is an extinct genus of palaeoniscoid ray-finned fish from North America. Its fossils are currently only known from the Bear Gulch Limestone located in central Montana which dates to the late Mississippian, also known as the Serpukhovian. It was a deep-bodied member of the group, though not to the extent of what is seen in genera like Platysomus. It possessed a short, blunt snout along with partially-webbed fins. There is only a single...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1389547.