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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Coccosteus sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Middle Devonian age from Thurso Bay, Thurso, Caithness (Scotland). Collected by David M. Lumsden.
Coccosteus was an armoured fish that would have lived in deep water, near the bottom of a fresh water lake about 380 million years ago. Coccosteus had bony plates in its mouth, with sharp, serrated edges, a bit like steak knives, that it used as teeth. It was a predatory (hunting) fish, and used its teeth like shears, to bite bits off its prey. It belonged to a group of fish called Placoderms.
The specimen was found in Caithness.
It is from the Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | David M. Classification: Chordata Brachthyoraci Pisces Coccosteidae Lumsden Coccosteidea Placodermi Arthrodira | 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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