Lot 758
Two Different Species of Devonian Fish from the Old Red Sandstone Formation of Scotland. This remarkable 18 x 6 inch black stone matrix is 380 million years old, from the Old Red Sandstone Formation of Scotland. There are two very different species of fish on this plate. There is a 7 inch long Osteolepis, which was a lobe-finned fish that had scales and plates on its head covered in a bony material called cosmine. It was a rhipidistan that had many features in common with the very first tetrapods that crawled onto the land. The second fish is a 2½ inch Pterichthyodes, a genus of antiarch placoderm that had a heavily-armored head and upper body with strange wing-like appendages. These very primitive fish look very different from the fish in our oceans today. Estimated Value $1,000 - UP
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