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Description: | The skeletons of dead animals are rarely found complete because they break up as the soft tissue decays or is eaten. This specimen shows a group of fragments including jaws with pointed teeth, and other bones and scales from an extinct lobe-finned fish that looked like a coelacanth. Strepsodus grew to a length of about 3 metres. It was a predator that fed mainly on smaller fish and lived in tropical freshwater lakes and rivers in the Carboniferous rain-forests. | 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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