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    Skeletal remains of Xiphactinus have come from the Carlile Shale and Greenhorn Limestone of Kansas (where the first Xiphactinus fossil was discovered...
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    fed on small particles. There is evidence that at least one species, Xiphactinus audax, may have been endothermic ("warm-blooded"). Another genus, Dugaldia...
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    fish Xiphactinus audax with the skeleton of another bony fish, Gillicus arcuatus inside the larger one. Another excellent skeleton of Xiphactinus audax...
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    was also a filter-feeder. Gillicus was also eaten by its own relative, Xiphactinus. One particular 13 foot (4.0 m) long fossil specimen contains a nearly...
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    Pachyrhizodus, Enchodus, and the massive 4-to-5-metre (13 to 16 ft) long Xiphactinus, larger than any modern bony fish. Other sea life included invertebrates...
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  • 13-foot-long Xiphactinus containing, below the ribs, a 6-foot-long fish, a Gillicus, which took up about half of the length of the Xiphactinus, killing it...
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  • R.; Stewart, J. D.; Williams, G. Dent (1997). "Xiphactinus vetus and the Distribution of Xiphactinus Species in the Eastern United States". Journal of...
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    to the sea, bitten off by some large predator such as a mosasaur or a Xiphactinus, or was crushed off by larger adults while herding on the shore. However...
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    specimen found with the stomach stuffed with the extinct herring Xyne grex) Xiphactinus (a 4-meter-long specimen was found with a perfectly preserved skeleton...
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    and consists of a partial vertebral column with skeletal remains of a Xiphactinus as stomach contents and partial jaws with about 150 teeth visible. This...
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    his discovery in Gove County, Kansas of the "fish-within-a-fish" of Xiphactinus audax with a recently eaten Gillicus arcuatus within its stomach. Sternberg...
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  • Tylosaurus (a mosasaur) hunting Xiphactinus...
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    The museum's fossil collection includes a 20-foot mosasaur, a 14-foot Xiphactinus fish, Pteranodon specimens, fossil birds, and numerous other late Cretaceous...
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  • Skeletal reconstruction of Tylosaurus hunting a Xiphactinus at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia...
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    such as Enchodus, Protosphyraena, Stratodus, and the ichthyodectids Xiphactinus and Saurodon. Mosasaurus is known from late Maastrichtian deposits in...
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  • "Unicerosaurus" (Armstrong, 1987, identified this fossil as belonging to a fish Xiphactinus). Studies over the years had concluded that the fossil "human" footprints...
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  • surface. Hesperornis hunt for fish until they themselves are hunted by Xiphactinus. Nostoceras hatchlings are at the mercy of the tides and juvenile Pyroraptor...
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    Xiphactinus is famous for being found with another fish (Gillicus) preserved in its stomach....
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    Eubiodectes Ichthyodectidae Cooyoo Ghrisichthys Ichthyodectes Postredectes Xiphactinus Saurodontidae Gwawinapterus Prosaurodon Saurocephalus Saurodon Unamichthys...
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    Enchodus, Cimolichthys, Saurocephalus, Saurodon, Gillicus, Ichthyodectes, Xiphactinus, Protosphyraena and Martinichthys; and the sharks Cretoxyrhina, Cretolamna...
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    specimens, which were accompanied by teeth that belonged to the fish Xiphactinus, which Marsh assumed that these teeth belonged to the pterosaur specimens...
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  • 19 April 2015 (2015-04-19) TBA Featured animals: Xenacanthus, alligator gar, Xiphactinus, Indo-Pacific sailfish, Leedsichthys, whale shark, Megapiranha, red bellied...
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    of partial wing bones, as well as a tooth from the prehistoric fish Xiphactinus, which Marsh mistakenly believed to belong to this new pterosaur (all...
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  • Styracosaurus Saurolophus Triceratops Troodon Tyrannosaurus Velociraptor Xiphactinus Wuerhosaurus Some animated depictions were made to give an impression...
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    late Cretaceous. It was closely related to the 4–6 m (13–20 ft) long Xiphactinus audax, and the 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long Gillicus arcuatus, and like other...
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  • silicoflagellates. 115 Ma First monotreme mammals. 114 Ma Earliest bees. 112 Ma Xiphactinus, a large predatory fish, appears in the fossil record. 110 Ma First hesperornithes...
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  • Gillicus arcuatus within the stomach of Xiphactinus audax, George F. Sternberg's most famous fossil find...
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    warm waters frequented by sharks, small mosasaurs, and fish such as Xiphactinus. Spiral-shelled ammonites and invertebrates of the marine shelf are also...
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    swordfish-like Protosphyraena, as well as the predatory fishes Pachyrhizodus, Xiphactinus, Ichthyodectes, Gillicus, Leptecodon, Enchodus and Cimolichthys, the...
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    large predatory fish were present in the seas at that time, most notably Xiphactinus. Several fish were of close relation to modern day fish including primitive...
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