Lepidotes – Fossil Fish scale

MCN-REP-883186

Cretaceous, 100 million years old
Tegama Formation, Kem Kem, Morocco

Lepidotes is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Jurrassic period and early Cretaceous. It inhabited both freshwater lakes and shallow seas. The body was covered with thick, enamelled scales.

4.6 x 2 cm