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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Strepsodus sp., collected from the Parrot Coal (?), Coal Measures of Late Carboniferous age from Pirnie Colliery, Fife (Scotland). Collected by Joseph Duff (?). Large slab with ?tail vertebrae, scales, etc., matrix very smooth.
The skeletons of dead animals usually break up as the soft tissue decays or is eaten. These bones and scales are from a lobe-finned fish like a coelacanth. Several ring-shaped bones can be seen in the assemblage and these are ring vertebrae from the tail of the fish. Strepsodus grew to a length of about 3 metres. It was a predator that fed mainly on smaller fish and lived in tropical freshwater lakes and rivers in the Carboniferous rain-forests.
The specimen was found in Fife.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Joseph (?) Duff Pisces Crossoptergyii Sarcopterygii Osteichthyes | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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