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Description: | These fish droppings called coprolites are from a primitive bony fish with lobe-shaped fins similar to a Coelacanth. Rhizodus grew to a length of 6 or 7 metres and had two large fang-like teeth up to 22cm in length at the front of its the jaw. It lived in freshwater rivers and lakes and was a predator that fed on smaller fish and amphibians. The coprolites were probably preserved in the fish's intestine and found with the fossil fish. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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