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Cretoxyrhina and Clidastes

author: Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

reference: t-din03-20301

Image Size 300 DPI: 24 * 33 cm

Cretoxyrhina mantelli pursuing Clidastes liodontus. Cretoxyrhina mantelli was a large shark that lived during the Cretaceous period, about 100 to 82 million years ago. Clidastes is an extinct genus of mosasaur lizard of the Late Cretaceous.

Keywords for this photo:

AMMONITE - ANIMAL - CLIDASTES - CRETACEOUS - CRETOXYRHINA - EARTH - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MESOZOIC - MOLLUSCA - MOSASAURIDAE - REPTILE - SEA - SHARK -