WWD: Thrissops sp.
Added 2023-05-01 10:25:59 +0000 UTCThe generic fish of the episode, which I've made into the very common fish genus Thrissops, which is the most numerous type of ray-finned fish collected from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation. These herring-like fish are known from many fossils of exceptional quality and likely lived in large shoals in the shallow seas covering Europe during the Jurassic Period.
Although not exceptional in terms of size or appearance, and most likely a staple prey species for many large marine predators, it was part of a group of Mesozoic fish known as the Ichthyodectiformes, and during the Cretaceous they produced many large and fearsome aquatic hunters, including the snaggletoothed, great white shark-sized Xiphactinus.
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It was mostly based on a tuna, but with barracuda teeth.
2023-05-03 23:19:54 +0000 UTCYes, that's the fish, and the fish within the fish is also a member of Ichthyodectiformes known as Gillicus.
2023-05-03 23:19:28 +0000 UTCThe king Torpucuda reminds me of Xiphactinus. Was that intentional?
Grant
2023-05-01 18:44:09 +0000 UTCisn't Xiphactinus the group of fish that makes up fish within a fish at the sternberg museum?
Cartoon dinosaur
2023-05-01 15:27:15 +0000 UTC
