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Description: | Fossil fish scales identified as Megalichthys sp. which are well preserved. The scales are brown to black in colour and fairly square in shape. They have a smooth surfaces and many are fractured. On the corner of the matrix is a 27mm wide vertebra. The matrix slab is composed of fine, black coal. AR/CB
Fossil fish scales from a Megalichthys sp. which are around 310 million years old from Scotland | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Geology Palaeontology | Temporal: | Carboniferous - Pennslyvanian - Moscovian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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