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Description: | Skilfully made plaster model of complete specimen. The following description is taken from a label found in Drawer 50, along with the four models of Pteralaspis: "The tail is hypocercal ('lowest lobe longest'), the body is covered with large diamond - shaped scales. The head shield is composed of a limited number of regularly arranged plates and there is a prominent dorsal spine. The eyes are situated on the margins of the head-shield, whilst the pineal eye does not pierce the skull and there is no opening for a dorsal nostril. The mouth is a transverse slit and is bounded posteriorly by a number of parallel moving plates, suggesting some nibbling movement was possible." This specimen is fragile and needs to be handled with care.; At 9/12/2007 the upper lobe of tail fin is missing | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Zoology | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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