Pachyrhizodus caninus
(PAK ee rize OH dus)
Description: Ray-finned Fish
Specimen location: Niobrara Chalk of Northwestern Kansas
Name means: “thick-rooted tooth”
While these fish were most certainly predators, they were also prey to some of the larger prehistoric fish. In 1998,the first Xiphactinus specimen with Pachyrhizodus remains inside was found by a team from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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