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Pterichthys
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Pte`rich´thys
n.1.(Paleon.) A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.


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They've found 15 types of fish and the preservation is exquisite, including a strange armoured fish called pterichthyodes, with a body like a cube with a pointed top.
 
 
 
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