Remigolepis walkeri.

Pronunciation: Remi-go-lee-pis walker-i
Translation: "Walker's oar-scale" - named after Kevin Walker, founding chairman of the Age of Fishes Museum, and the short oar-like pectoral fin.
Period: Late Devonian (360 million years ago)

Description - small mud-eating armoured fish

Class - Placodermi ('plated-skin' - the armoured fishes)
Order - Antiarchi (armoured pectoral fins)
Family - Remigolepidae ('the family of Remigolepis)
Genus - Remigolepis
Species - Remigolepis walkeri

Length - 35 cm

World-wide, Remigolepis is not quite as common as Bothriolepis, but different species are known from Devonian rocks in China, Greenland, Russia, and at least three sites in Australia. In contrast to Bothriolepis the pectoral fin is quite short, and Remigolepis may not have been as effective a swimmer as Bothriolepis.

Remigolepis walkeri is very common at Canowindra - more than 1500 specimens have been found so far. The high quality of preservation at the Canowindra site, and the large quantity of individual specimens, mean that the Canowindra species is one of the most thoroughly studied antiarchs.