Image of Xiphactinus
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Xiphactinus was a large, 15 to 20 feet long predatory bony fish that lived in the Western Interior Sea, over what is now the middle of North America, during the Late Cretaceous. When alive, the fish would have resembled a gargantuan, fanged tarpon.
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