Chondrichthyes - Iniopterygia - Iniopterygidae

Full reference: E. D. Grogan and R. Lund. 2009. Two new iniopterygians (Chondrichthyes) from the Mississippian (Serpukhovian) Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana with evidence of a new form of chondrichthyan neurocranium. Acta Zoologica 90(Suppl. 1):134-151

Belongs to Papilionichthys according to E. D. Grogan and R. Lund 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MV 6170, a skeleton. Its type locality is MV 5410, Bear Gulch, which is in an Arnsbergian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore