#I'm coming to science##Little Robber Dragon Say#Cretaceous Coastal Little Overlord - Chalk Fish!
The Cretaceous oceans were home to a variety of ferocious sea monsters, from long-necked plesiosaurs to all-devouring dragons whose rays obscured the fish of the radial subclass. In fact, in the Cretaceous ocean, there are all kinds of large and fierce fish, and chalk is one of them.
Crunch (Cimolichthys) lived in the Campa to Maastricht order of the Late Cretaceous between 83.5 million and 70.6 million years ago, in the shallow seas from the inland seaways of western North America to Europe. Chalky fish can reach a body length of 1.5 to 2 meters and weigh about 50 kg, which is a fierce big fish.
Chalky fish have a long, narrow head with a pointed front end and a pair of large eyes on either side. In the mouth of the chalk fish, there are multiple rows of sharp and curved teeth, which have a terrifying lethality, and can leave terrible wounds on the prey, or even directly bite into two pieces. The chalky fish has a long, narrow, streamlined body, covered with large, heavy scales on the upper and lower edges of the body, and a large symmetrical tail that produces enormous thrust. Chalk that comes and goes like the wind is like a torpedo, speeding up.
If you look for a fish similar to chalk fish in today's oceans, it must be the Sphyraena barracuda (Figures 7 and 8), a predatory fish that lives in tropical and subtropical waters, and even dares to fight small sharks! The large scales feed on a variety of fish and cephalopods, and interestingly, the remains of fish and cephalopods have also been found in the stomach contents of chalk fish, and it seems that the two fish species probably have similar habits.
Despite its close resemblance to the great scaly fish, chalk fish are taxonomically belonging to the order Fairy fish, and the nearest extant species related to them is the sail lizard fish (Alepisaurus, Figure 9). Chalk disappeared earlier than the K-T extinction event, most likely due to the effects of the retreat of the western inland seaway at the end of the Late Cretaceous period.
Figure 5 Restoration by Fishboy Loves Elasm
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