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Description: | The fossil fish has been identified as Cheiracanthus lutia. The specimen is incomplete and only has the posterior part of the body with the tail and fins. The specimen has been broken and shows a cross section through the calcaerous nodule. Here fine laminations can be seen. The fish is a purple colour and displays the scales. It has been fairly well preserved. The nodule consists of a brown fine grained matrix. Collected from ?Tynet fish bed in the Middle Old Red Sandstone. AR/CB 07/06/2010
A fossil fish identified as Cheiracanthus lutia which is approximately 390 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fossils Geology Palaeontology Dr Fraser Collection | Temporal: | Devonian - Middle | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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