1.1" Xiphactinus Audax Fossil Vertebrae Cretaceous Era Fish Niobrara FM Kansas

Location: Niobrara Formation, Gove County, Kansas

Weight: 0.4 Ounces 

Dimensions: 1.1 Inches Long, 0.8 Inches Wide, 0.7 Inches Thick

Late Cretaceous, 83 million years old

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Xiphactinus Audax stood as one of the giant bony fish of the Late Cretaceous, feared as a ruthless sea predator. Its powerful tail and wing-shaped pectoral fins propelled this 17-foot (5-meter) titan through ocean surface waters with unstoppable force. Fish and seabirds met their fate in its upturned jaw, armed with massive fang-like teeth, giving it a fierce, bulldog-like snarl.

The 13-foot (4-meter) Xiphactinus had a jaw capable of engulfing whole fish up to six feet (two meters) long, although it was sometimes hunted by the shark Cretoxyrhina. Xiphactinus Audax inhabited the Western Interior Seaway, an ancient ocean that once spanned much of central North America during the Cretaceous period. Though extinct, this bony fish would resemble a massive, fanged tarpon if it lived today.