The Ancient Shark Falcatus falcatus | Smithsonian Ocean
The foot-long extinct shark Falcatus falcatus lived during the early Carboniferous period around 325 million years ago. The species, known from fossils in the Bear Gulch formation of Montana, was very common in the ancient sea that once covered the area.
Falcatus | The Prehistoric Unicorn Sharks - YouTube
One of the least often thought of parts of a shark’s anatomy is the fin – specifically the dorsal fin. That sounds contradictory considering it’s the dorsal ...
A Golden Age of Sharks - elasmo-research.org
Falcatus was also a stethacanthid, but it grew to a length of only about six inches (15 centimetres) — about the same size as the very smallest of living sharks. Falcatus inhabited the warm, shallow seas that invaded the American mainland during the …
Falcatus - Wikiwand
Falcatus is an extinct genus of falcatid chondrichthyan which lived during the early Carboniferous Period in Bear Gulch bay in what is now Montana.
Falcatus - Prehistoric Wildlife
Falcatus. Name: Falcatus Phonetic: Fal-cat-us. Named By: R. Lund - 1985. Classification: Chordata, Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii, Symmoriida. Species: F. falcatus (type), F. hamatus, F. proclivus. Diet: Carnivore/piscivore. Size: 25 to 30 centimetres long. Known locations: USA. Time period: Serpukhovian of the Carboniferous.
Meet Cambroraster falcatus , the sediment-sifting ‘Roomba’ of …
2019年7月30日 · Such was the reign of terror wrought by Cambroraster falcatus, an early arthropod relative recently unearthed from the Burgess Shale deposit in British Columbia, Canada. Equipped with rake-like...
Falcatus | Fossil Wiki - Fandom
Falcatus falcatus (the name refers to the sickle-shaped first dorsal fin spine) is an extinct species of small cladodont-toothed stethacanthid shark from the genus Falcatus. It is placed in its own family, Falcatidae, along with, and closely related to, Damocles serratus. It ranges up to about l0-12 inches in length.
This newfound predator may have terrorized the Cambrian seafloor
2019年7月30日 · A fierce predator, with spiny claws and a round, rasping mouth, terrorized the Cambrian seafloor 508 million years ago as it raked through the sand in search of food. Dubbed Cambroraster falcatus...
Permit (fish) - Wikipedia
The permit (Trachinotus falcatus) is a game fish of the western Atlantic Ocean belonging to the family Carangidae. Adults feed on crabs, shrimp, and smaller fish.
Falcata - Wikipedia
The falcata is a type of sword typical of pre- Roman Iberia. The falcata was used to great effect for warfare in the ancient Iberian Peninsula, and is firmly associated with the southern Iberian tribes, among other ancient peoples of Hispania.