Osteolepis Is Fossilized Fish On A White Background Royalty-Free Stock Image

Osteolepis is Fossilized fish on a white background.Osteolepis was about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long and covered with large, square scales. The scales and plates on its head were covered in a thin layer of spongy, bony material called cosmine. This layer contained canals which were connected to sensory cells deeper in the skin. These canals ended in pores on the surface and were probably for sensing vibrations in the water. Osteolepis was a rhipidistian, having several features in common with the tetrapods (land-dwelling vertebrates and their descendants), and was probably close to the base of the tetrapod family tree. Prehistoric Fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates and include the fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary Periods. The study of prehistoric fish is called paleoichthyology. Fish have played, and continue to play, a vital role throughout the seas & waterways of our planet, providing larger sea, land & sky creatures an abundant food source for their survival. Fish fossils are extremely common and as several species of fish were schooling fish it is not uncommon for fossil fish to still be preserved in their shoals, with some specimens even being preserved on top of each other!