Xiphactinus

Xiphactinus (from Latin and Greek for "sword-ray") is an extinct genus of large (4.5 to 6 metre; 15 to 20 feet long) predatory marine bony fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous. When alive, the fish would have resembled a gargantuan, fanged tarpon (to which it was, however, not related).[3] The species Portheus molossus described by Cope[3] is a junior synonym of X. audax. Skeletal remains of Xiphactinus have come from Kansas (where the first Xiphactinus fossil was discovered during the 1850s),[4] and Cretaceous formations all over the East Coast(most notably Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and New Jersey) in the United States, as well as Europe, Australia, Canada and Venezuela.[5]
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Marine fish genera
Category:Cretaceous fish of europe
Category:Prehistoric fish of australia
Category:Prehistoric fish of south america
Category:Late cretaceous fish of north america
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