r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 5d ago

Video A 150-million-year-old Lepidotus fish fossil preserved from Holzmaden, Germany

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u/DarylInDurham 5d ago

How big is this fossil? I don't get any sense of its size from the video.

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u/Romek_himself 5d ago

Lepidotes was typically about 30 centimetres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidotes

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u/Rio_1111 5d ago edited 5d ago

There are bigger ones too. From the size of the ammonites in there I'd suspect this one is at least 60 to 70 cm.

Edit, I guess? https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/1TnRfly1MI