Asterolepis

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]