Speaking of lungfish, here's a little Proto-Protopterus that was encased in a mudslide while estivating in its' coccoon. From the Triassic of Morocco.
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Now we'll go a little further back in time. This is a mass mortality plate of Protopteraspis sp. It's comprised of body shields from some of the first armored fish. They occurred before the evolution of moveable jaws. From the Devonian age.
From the Devonian of New Mexico, this is Semionotus sp, An semi-armored ray-finned fish.
I got really excited when I found this skull. I thought it was a Pteridactyl or other flying reptile. But, the nares and skull bone constructions were all wrong. Turns out it's a gar-pike or false-gar called Aspidorhynchus brevissemis(?-possible name updated recently).
For all you catfish lovers, here's Astephus antiquus. An Ictaluridae cat from the Eocene of the Green River Basin Formation of Kemmerer, Wyoming.
Another species from The German Lithographic limestone formations is Leptolipides sprattiformus.
Here are a couple of Osteoglossids (boney-tongues) from the Eocene of Kemmerer, Wyoming. Phareodus testis and P. encaustus.
Even fish fry can be found in the Green River Basin. Here's a very young Priscacara sp. and Mioplosus lambracoides.
