A genus of extinct armored fish from the Devonian period with star-shaped bony armor plating.
From Greek aster (star) plus lepis (scale), creating a genus name describing the star-patterned armor of these ancient fish.
Asterolepis was a real fish swimming around 400 million years ago with armor made of star-shaped bone plates—it looked like it swam straight out of a fantasy game but it's completely real!
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