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Description: | Acentrophorus varians was a small fish that lived in the Zechstein Sea in the Sunderland area 250 million years ago. The Zechstein Sea was affected by world wide changes in sea level, and dried up five times as the water evaporated. As the sea dried up, it became more and more salty. Acentophorus was probably a scavenger and fed from the remains of other dead fish. It had tiny sharp, pointed teeth for tearing flesh, but was one of the smallest fish in the sea at that time and was therefore probably not a predator. | 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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