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Description: | A fossil fish identified as Cheiracanthus sp. and is fairly well preserved. The specimen is in two halves and forms a nodule. Part of this nodule is missing. Scales are present on the fish and range in colour from pale to dark. The two parts of the specimen are labelled a and b. There is a fracture running trhough b which has been repaired with resin. The head of the fish is in part a and is pale. The nodule is made up of a dark grey matrix which weathers to a brown. It is made up of mud. AR/CB
A fossil fish called Cheiracanthus sp. which is around 380 to 390 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Geology Palaeontology | Temporal: | Devonian - Upper | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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