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Description: | The skeletons of dead animals break up as the soft tissue decays or is eaten. Individual bones are found more often than complete skeletons. This radial bone is from the fin of a lobed-finned fish like a coelacanth. It would have had muscles that moved the fin attached to it when the fish was alive. Strepsodus grew to a length of about 3 metres. It lived in freshwater lakes and rivers that fed mainly on smaller 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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