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Eurhinosaurus

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A small pod of Eurhinosaurus hunt fish in the European oceans of the early Jurassic.
Eurhinosaurus ("well-nosed lizard") was a genus of ichtyosaur, a group of doplhin-like marine reptiles, otherwise unnoticeable if not for the way its upper jaw developed into a swordlike appendage twice as long as the lower jaw, and flanked by teeth. It's unknown if this strange "blade" was used to stab or slash. It measured up to six metres long.
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I didn't know that Eurhinosaurus had a sawfish like bill. It might have used it to slice into Leedsicthys, (although I don't know right off hand if these two giants lived at the same time), or it could have been used as a display. It would have been a very formidable weapon, being over 18 feet long and backed up by a 30 mph swimming behemoth that probably weighed at least 10 tons.