Description

Late Mississippian
Bear Gulch Limestone
Fergus County, Montana, USA
Very high quality 87mm fish on 200mm slab.
Problematica, Bear Gulch Limestone.

Apholidotos is a genus of early ray-finned fish (Subclass Actinopterygii) that has been tentatively assigned to the Tarasiidae but has yet to be studied in detail.  Its closest living relative may be the funky African freshwater fish, Polypterus, once considered a type of lungfish.