Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Asterolepis \As`te*rol"e*pis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. '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.