Phaneropleuron andersoni - Lobe-Finned Fish

Description

Dura Den fish slab, fossil lobe-finned fish, one Phaneropleuron andersoni and approx. twenty-four Holoptychius flemingi, from the Famennian Age (Upper Devonian) of the Old Red Sandstone of Dura Den, Fife, Scotland

Museum reference

G.1966.39.13

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

species: Phaneropleuron andersoni - Lobe-Finned Fish
species: Holoptychius flemingi - Lobe-Finned Fish

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Collection place(s)

Dura Den, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Collector: Heddle, Matthew Forster, 1828 - 1897

Exhibitions

• Survival (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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