#xiphactinus

[fossillad123]

bulldog tarpon

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

Here's a closer look at the school of Caproberyx around a Tylosaurus skeleton, from the fish half of my large Western Interior Seaway mural (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Also featured are a Xiphactinus, Apsopelix, and a variety of ammonites.

[alex-fictus]

My Mesozoic is Teal!

Zuul crurivastitor - Plesiosaurus - Ampelosaurus

Xiphactinus - Saurophaganax - Morganucodon

Dakotaraptor - Pterodaustro - Atlascopcosaurus

Ichthyovenator - Oviraptor - Rugops

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[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday! Let’s swim back in time about 85 million years to the Late Cretaceous Period to meet Xiphactinus, a gigantic predatory fish. This species could reach lengths of 17 ft (5.2 m) and was capable of swallowing a 6-ft- (2-m-) long fish whole!

The Museum’s Xiphactinus fossils come from Logan County, Kansas, which is home to 70-ft- (21.3 m-) tall sedimentary formations. Though that might not sound like an ideal home for an ocean-dweller, the entire area was covered by a vast inland sea during the Cretaceous.

Photo: Image no. ptc-6634 © AMNH (circa 1996)

[princefluph]

5th page! No turning back now! Dont even know how far Ill go!

[mouserrouser]

Mermay 1: Mirror

Alrunk Tichit, the dual gods of predators, honesty and trust, bridges, duality and floods. They are one of the gods of the Divine Circle, an Anazahgrat pantheon of the Greater Coalition.

[moonringblue]

Xiphactinus getting a snack. day 7 of Maysozoic !

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Recreating my first ever paleoart

Elasmosaur, me age 5

Elasmosaur, me age 10 (almost) years later

[wodeworm]

Xiphactinus "Sword-ray"

Originally discovered in Kansas, which was once an inland sea that spanned North America, Xiphactinus was a long, ray-finned fish that was built for speed and living like today's tuna or tarpon, even greatly resembling the latter, which have been clocked at over 30 miles an hour. Having a generalist diet, feeding on anything it could fit in its enormous maw, occasionally swallowing and choking on fish almost its own length, around 20 feet in length. They had a very successful lifestyle with fossils being found globally, terrorizing both the coast and the open ocean; they survived right up until the KT extinction event.

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#PortfolioDay

It's #PortfolioDay again!!! Hello there, and welcome to my Tumblr gallery!

I'm a palaeoartist who specialises with pterosaurs and maniraptorans, but i also draw other kinds of dinosaurs, marine reptiles, ammonites, mammals, and fish! I also on occasion make skeletals.

[proflambeovt]

Paleovember 2023, Xiphactinus!

Also known as the X-fish or the Bulldog fish, Xiphactinus swam the Western Interior Seaway during the Late Cretaceous, and  was probably one of the most terrifying fish to ever exist. Not only did it grow up to 20 feet long, it turns out to have an attitude as ugly as it's face; specimens have been found having choked to death on fish way too large for their gullets, and it's likely that their own kind would have been on the menu as well.

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

Here's the fish half of my large Western Interior Seaway mural (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Featured are a Xiphactinus, Apsopelix, a school of Caproberyx around a Tylosaurus skeleton, and a variety of ammonites.

[alex-fictus]

X is for...?

All of the X names in my Paleo Party! Only 3 for the moment, but I'm sure we could scrounge up some more! (I do have at least one in the works to try to release in May ;D ) Are there any I'm missing?

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[makairodonx]

Tylosaurus proriger with company

[funtusk]

Xiphactinus at the Tellus Museum.

[twotriickhoofbea2t]

What's inside the fish? Well it's more fish, unfortunately.