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Description: | Bothriolepis canadensis was a fish that had a covering of hard, bony plates over its head and body. This fish usually lived in fresh water as its remains have rarely been found in marine (sea) sediments. In the 19th century, fossils of this fish were at first thought to be of turtles or beetles, because of their bony armoured plates, and the jointed pectoral (lower front) fins. Bothriolepis lived at the sea bottom, and would have searched through mud for its food. It belonged to a primitive group of armoured fishes called Placoderms. | 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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