Fishing for Dunkleosteus and more

[Oxytropidoceras]

Wolf Run Preserve along the Vermilion River may well

harbor fossils of the fearsome Dunkleosteus (photo gallery)

Peter Krouse, ClevelandCom, February. 07, 2022

 

More about Dunkleosteus:

 

A Devonian Fish Tale: A New Method of Body Length

Estimation Suggests Much Smaller Sizes for

Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira)

Diversity 15(3):318, February 2023

 

Paleobiology of Dunkleosteus terrelli and

Paleoecology of the Cleveland Shale

 

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited February 22, 2023 by Oxytropidoceras
formatting and added URL

[Pliosaur]

The Dunkleosteus size revision is fascinating to me, always thought of Dunkleosteus as a huge apex predator of the Devonian but I’m also curious as to how well this revised size measurement of a 10 foot long Dunkleosteus will hold up since there’s still not a lot known about this fish because of fragmentary remains. 
 

Also think it would be nice to see a updated artist reconstruction of what the fish would look like in real life given the new size where the head takes up most of the body proportion.

[Fissiletag]

@PliosaurThe paper revising the size of Dunkleosteus has an image with an updated reconstruction. 

[RuMert]

All I can say to that guy: what are you waving at? Run!