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Description: | Asterolepis maxima was a primitive armoured fish, which had bony plates covering its head and the upper part of its body, giving it a box like shape. Fish like this are now extinct, but were quite common during the Middle and Late Devonian. Asterolepis probably live on the sea floor, scavenging in mud for food. This specimen shows one of the armoured plates from the body of the fish. If you look closely you can see that it is covered with many tiny wart-like bumps. | 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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