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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Acentrophorus varians Kirkby, collected from the Concretionary Limestone of Late Permian, Zechstein (Durham Province), EZ2 age from Fulwell Hill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (NE England).
Acentrophorus varians was a small fish, a bit like a sardine, that lived in the Zechstein Sea (a tropical sea that stretched from north east England to Poland) about 250 million years ago. This fish probably lived close to the shore, hiding amongst sea-weeds and avoiding some of the larger predators which also lived in this sea. Acentrophorous had tiny, sharp, conical (cone-shaped) teeth, which it probably used for eating meat. Since it was so small, it was probably a scavenger. Fossils of these fish used to be quite common when there were many working quarries in the Sunderland area. However, they are now very rarely found.
The specimen was found in Tyne and Wear.
It is from the Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Semionotiformes Pisces Neopterygii Semionotidae Actinopterygii Osteichthyes | Temporal: | Permian period (290 - 248 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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