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Ichthyodectidae

Ichthyodectidae

Overview

Ichthyodectidae Crook, 1892

Common Name: Fish-biters

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: These fish had irregular teeth of various sizes and readily preyed on other fish. Fish are among the most common fossils in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.

        SIZE: +4 meters (13ft)

Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)

        FEEDING MODE: Predator

        HABITAT: epifaunal

Sources:

Everhart, M. J., 2005. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 322 pp.


Genera of Ichthyodectidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway