FHSM VP-333
Xiphactinus audax (Leidy, 1870)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
XiphactinusPhylum
ChordataSpecies
audaxClass
ActinopterygiiAuthor
LeidyOrder
IchthyodectiformesYear
1870Family
IchthyodectidaeCollected by
Sternberg, G.F.Date Collected
1952-07-04Identified By
Bardack, D.Date Identified
1905-05-18Type
Number of Pieces
1Description
Skeleton; Complete Skeleton,Locality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
GoveRemarks
Information withheld. Please contact FHSM for detailed locality informationGroup
ColoradoFormation
NiobraraMember
Smoky HillZone
Bed
Local Fauna
Chronostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Earliest Period
CretaceousLatest Period
CretaceousLowest Zone
Highest Zone
Publications (3 of 10)
Bardack, D., 1976. Paracanthopterygian and acanthopterygian fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas. Fieldiana Geology, 33:335-374
Schwimmer, D.R., 1997. Xiphactinus vetus and the distribution of Xiphactinus species in the eastern United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17:610-615
Shimada, K., 1997. Paleoecological relationships of the late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli (Agassiz). Journal of Paleontology, 71:926-933
Shimada, K., 2004. Shark-bitten Xiphactinus audax (Teleostei: Ichthyodectiformes) from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas. The Mosasaur, 7:35-39
Shimada, K., 2006. Annotated checklist of fossil fishes from the Smoky Hill Chalk of the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) in Kansas. , 35:193-213
Walker, M.V., Everhart, M.J.. 2006. The Impossible Fossil - Revisited. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 109:87-96
Barnes, B.M.S., Boyd, C.A., Person, J.J. 2017. Paleo Primer 2. North Dakota Geological Survey Educational Series, 35:
King, J.L., Super, K.J. 2019. The smallest recorded specimen of Xiphactinus audax from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas and its implications for juvenile ichthyodectid ecology. Historical Biology. , 33:441-445
Bardack, D., 1965. Anatomy and evolution of chirocentrid fishes. Kansas University Paleontology Contributions, Vertebrata, 10:87
Cicimurri, D.J., 2001. An Elasmosaur with Stomach Contents and Gastroliths from the Pierre Shale (Late Cretaceous) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 104:129-143