Description
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Name:Β Osteolepis macrolepidotus
Specimen: Primitive Fish
Age:Β Sandwick Fish Beds, Eifelian, Devonian
Location Found:Β Orkney, Scotland
Osteolepis, meaningΒ ‘Bone Scale’Β is a prehistoricΒ genus of lobe-finned fish from the Devonian period. It lived in the Lake Orcadie of northern Scotland.
Prehistoric Fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary Periods. The study of prehistoric fish is called paleoichthyology. Fish have played, and continue to play, a vital role throughout the seas & waterways of our planet, providing larger sea, land & sky creatures an abundant food source for their survival. Fish fossils are extremely common and as several species of fish were schooling fish it is not uncommon for fossil fish to still be preserved in their shoals, with some specimens even being preserved on top of each other!
SIMILAR TO SEEN:Β The image shows an example of the single specimen you will receive. This will be picked from our stock box graded and with a size within the minimum and maximum size range indicated. It will not be the exact specimen in the photo, the colours, shape, size and style may vary as with any natural item.
