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Description: | Specimen of a fossil fish (tooth), Strepsodus sauroides Huxley, collected from the Modiolaris Zone, Middle Coal Measures, Low Main Seam of Late Carboniferous, Westphalian, Duckmantian age from Newsham Colliery, Blyth, Northumberland (NE England).
This tooth is from an early bony fish that grew to a length of about 3 metres. It belonged to a group of fishes with lobe-shaped fins that also included the coelacanths. Scales, teeth and vertebrae are all that is usually found of the fish. They lived in freshwater lakes and rivers and were probably predators that fed mainly on smaller fish.
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 Crossoptergyii Sarcopterygii Osteichthyes | 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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