[fish] Asterolepis is an extinct genus of placoderms from the Devonian of North America and Europe. They were heavily armored benthic detritivores with distinctive jointed limb-like pectoral fins. ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterolepis_(fish)
As`te·rol'e·pis noun [ New Latin , from Greek '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. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/135