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Description: | Asterolepis maxima was an armoured fish that lived during the Middle to Late Devonian. The upper part of its body and its head were covered with protective bony plates. The plates were covered with a raised pattern of wart like lumps. Asterolepis probably lived on the sea floor, searching for food in layers of mud. This fossil shows the plates that covered the main body of the fish. The head, armoured fins and tail are all missing. Fish like these are very primitive and do not have many of the special adaptations that modern fish have. | 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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