#coccosteus

[paleotanks]

Coccosteus, Animal Armor traveling exhibit at the Putnam Museum in Davenport, IA.

[mirtadraws]

As part of my research for this design, I looked at so many extinct creatures, mostly strange fish. Enjoy this collection of cool placoderms

Names are in captions & tags. Most of these come from Wikipedia, Materpiscis is from here, here , and I can't find the source for the last one anymore :(

[dromaeosaurid]

Various fossil fishes of the Old Red Sandstone formation (predominantly Devonian) from A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles and Fishes in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History), 1896.

[earlypalaeoart]

Devonian fishes - Coccosteus, Pterichthys and Cephalaspis from the Upper Silurian or Passage Beds of Lanarkshire’ from The past and present life of the globe. Being a sketch in outline of the world’s life-system by David Page, 1861

https://archive.org/details/pastpresentlifeo00pagerich/page/97/mode/1up

[earlypalaeoart]

Cephalaspis, Coccosteus, Pterichthys and Osteolepis, Palaeozoic fishes from Geological Facts; or, the Crust of the Earth, what it is, and what are its uses by the Rev. W. G. Barrett, 1855

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72100/pg72100-images.html

[earlypalaeoart]

"Poissons de la période devonienne" [Fishes of the Devonian] from La terre avant le déluge [The world before the deluge] by Louis Figuier, 1863

Previously published in The past and present life of the globe. Being a sketch in outline of the world’s life-system by David Page, 1861

[earlypalaeoart]

Devonian from Geology for the million by Margaret Plues, 1863

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=QgoKAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA24&hl=en_GB

[vickysaurus]

Coccosteus, a placoderm fish.