ARMOUR, ESTUARIES AND ATTITUDE: MEET BOTHRIOLEPSIS, DEVONIAN BOTTOM-DWELLER EXTRAORDINAIRE

This handsome armoured fellow is Bothriolepis canadensis—one of the greats of the Late Devonian seas, here in replica form but no less marvellous for it. He hails from the Frasnian-aged Escuminac Formation at Parc national de Miguasha, tucked along the shores of Baie des Chaleurs in Québec—a place where deep time feels almost within reach.Bothriolepis was a placoderm, one of the earliest