xiphactinus

     

Xiphactinus auax (from Latin and Greek for "audacious sword-ray") was a large, 4.5 to 5 m (15 to 20 feet) long predatory bony fish that lived in the Niobraran Sea, in what is now North America, during the Late Cretaceous. When alive, the beast would have resembled a gargantuan, fanged tarpon (to which it was, however, unrelated). A junior synonym of the species is Portheus molossus. Skeletal remains of Xiphactinus have come from Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia.

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