Enjoy your tour

Home Museum Add Specimen What's This? I Know! Forum Store Books Links Help LogIn Signup

FS308 Rhizodus Tooth

9.0 cm. Long x 4.0 cm. Wide x 2.0 cm. High

Click on images for other views

Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Osteichthyes, Rhizodontida, Rhizodontidae, Rhizodus, hibberti

Description: Tooth of extinct predatory lobe-finned fish embedded in Carboniferous limestone. Rhizodus hibberti reached an estimated 7 meters in length, making it the largest freshwater fish known.

Age: Carboniferous Period

Location Found: United Kingdom, ,

Found by: henryhudson

Custodian: henryhudson

Identified by: Carl Mehling

References: A Pictorial Guide to Fossils, p. 280.