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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Osteolepis macrolepidotus Agassiz, collected from the Upper Old Red Sandstone of Devonian age from Cairnfield, Aberdeenshire (Scotland). Collected by Watson, J., Junior.
Osteolepis was a fish that lived in a large fresh water lake called Lake Orcadie, that covered a large area of Scotland during the Devonian period. Osteolepis was a fish which probably formed part of the ancestral line from fishes to amphibians and as such is an ancestor of land-based vertebrates (animals with backbones). In this fossil, you can see the head, part of the body, and a fin of this fish. The piece of rock containing the rest of this fossil has broken away.
The specimen was found in Aberdeenshire.
It is from the Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Junior Classification: Chordata Pisces Crossoptergyii Watson J. Sarcopterygii Osteichthyes | Temporal: | Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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