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fossils are commonly preserved in the Fossil Lake deposits of Eocene age in westernmost
Wyoming, but are rare in the coeval Lake Gossiute sediments of Wyoming and the Lake Uinta deposits of Utah and Colorado. The genus also occurs in the middle Eocene lake deposits of Washington and British Columbia.
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fossils. It is characterized by a sunfish-like body and its stout dorsal and anal spines. The genus is best known from the
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Cope, E. D. (1877). "A contribution to the knowledge of the ichthyological fauna of the Green River shales".
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Grande, L. (1984). "Paleontology of the Green River
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