Lepidotes: Beast of the Week

 This wee we will look at a unique kind of prehistoric fish that swam in rivers and lakes while some of the largest dinosaurs walked on land.  Check out Lepidotes!Watercolor reconstruction of Lepidotes gigas by Christopher DiPiazza.Lepidotes was a genus of heavily scaled bony fish that lived in what is now Europe and North America during the early Jurassic between 180 and 175 million years ago.  The genus may have even persisted into the Early Cretaceous, as recent as 115 million years ago, but