asterolepis

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Asterolepis \As`te*rol"e*pis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'asth`r star + ?
   scale.] (Paleon.)
   A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet
   long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.
   --Hugh Miller.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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