old red sandstone

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old red sandstone Geological term for freshwater deposits of the Devonian period found in Britain. These strata are noted for their fish fossils among which are jawless fishes (ostracoderms), the first jawed fishes (placoderms), and the first true bony fishes (osteichthyes).

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