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Xiphactinus sp. - fossil fish skeleton from the Cretaceous of Kansas, USA. (public display, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas, USA)

From museum signage: This is Sternberg Museum's most famous fossil - the fish-within-a-fish. A fourteen-foot Xiphactinus swallowed a six-foot Gillicus head first. The Xiphactinus died shortly after consuming its last meal, sinking into the soft seafloor with the still undigested Gillicus entombed within its ribcage.

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Ichthyodectiformes, Ichthyodectidae

Stratigraphy: Niobrara Formation, Upper Cretaceous

Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site in Gove County, western Kansas, USA

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Author James St. John

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