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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish, Coccosteus cuspidatus, collected from unspecified rocks of Devonian age at Achanarras Quarry, Achanarras, Caithness (Scotland).
Coccosteus was an armoured fish. The head and the upper part of its body were covered with hard, armour-like plates, but the rest of its body was unprotected. It would have measured about 45cm long. Coccosteus lived in Lake Orcadie, a large fresh water lake that covered parts of Scotland about 400 million years ago. This fish, and the other armoured fish that were alive during the Devonian, are now extinct.
The specimen was found in Scotland.
It is from the Devonian period (418 - 362 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Pisces | 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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