Name - Xiphactinus audax

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1822707 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870

• Xiphactinus audax Cope

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Recent Publications

• Shark-bitten Xiphactinus audax (Teleostei: Ichthyodectiformes) from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas.
• Plesiosaurs as the food of mosasaurs; new data on the stomach contents of a Tylosaurus proriger (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Formation of Western Kansas.
• The impossible fossil - revisited.
• Evidence of endothermy in the extinct macropredatory osteichthyan Xiphactinus audax (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes).
• The smallest recorded specimen of Xiphactinus audax from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas and its implications for juvenile ichthyodectid ecology.

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