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Specimen #: F.75.04.06
Collection: Osteichthyes > Fish, Xiphactinus
Status: stored
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Description
Dentary, Maxilla, over ten (10) vertebrae of various sizes, skull elements and vertebrae fragments, other unidentified fragments.
Measurements
Maxilla - Width: 7.8, Height: 3.8, Length: ~37.0 Dentary - Width:10.2, Height: 2.5, Length: ~29.3 Large Vertebra - Width: 7.0, Height: 6.5, Length: 4.4 Rough measurements were taken using a hand held ruler, not calipers.
Details
| Common Name: | Fish, Xiphactinus |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Osteichthyes |
| Order: | Ichthyodectiformes |
| Family: | Ichthyodectidae |
| Genus: | Xiphactinus |
| Species: | audax |
| Geo Period: | Assume Cretaceous |
| Epoch: | Assume Campanian |
| Formation: | Assume Pierre Shale |
| Member: | Assume Pembina |
| Current Location: | Manitoba Escarpment |
| Credit: | Dr. Elizabth L. Nicholls, Henry Isaak, Donald Bell |
Current Condition
Well-preserved