Late Jurassic flesh-eating fish from Bavaria

[Kasia]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/10/18/flesh-ripping-fish/#more-2956

 

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-flesh-eating-piranha-fish-lived-alongside-dinosaurs-discovered-1175875?piano_t=1

[Oxytropidoceras]

Another article is at:

 

With Piranha-Like Teeth, This Prehistoric Predator Never Bit Off 

More Than It Could Chew. Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/science/piranha-fossil.html

https://www.nytimes.com/by/nicholas-st-fleur

 

The open acess paper paper is:

 

Martina Kölbl-Ebert, Martin Ebert, David R. Bellwood, and

Christian Schulbert, 2018, A Piranha-like Pycnodontiform 

Fish from the Late Jurassic Published: October 18, 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.013

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31208-9

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(18)31208-9

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.