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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish (tooth), Sagenodus inaequalis, collected from the Coal Measures Group rocks rocks of Late Carboniferous, Westphalian, Langsettian - Duckmantian age from Newsham Colliery, Blyth, Northumberland (NE England). Toothplate.
Sagenodus is a type of lung-fish that had an eel-like body and grew up to 30 cm in length. Lungfish were the first vertebrates (animals with backbones) adapted to breath air. They lived in shallow, salt and fresh water that was liable to become stagnant and dry up. The tooth plate formed part of a jaw palate that was used to crush the mollusc shells and crustaceans that the fish ate.
The specimen was found in Northumberland.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Pisces Sarcopterygii Osteichthyes Dipnoi | 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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