Cretoxyrhina mantelli Variant:Hand-painted Its body was slender and

Its body was slender and its head small and triangular

specifically in the Carnian period

Its remains were discovered in 1997 in the Elrhaz Formation in Niger by a team led by Paul Sereno

with an estimated body length of around 3–3

Cretoxyrhina mantelli Variant:Hand-painted Its body was slender andCretoxyrhina mantelli was a large lamniform shark from the Late Cretaceous (approx. 10082 million years Before Present), widely distributed in the epicontinental seas that covered large regions of what is now North America and other continental shelves. Informally known as the "ginsu shark" due to the morphology of its teethsharp, laterally compressed, and with smooth edgesthis taxon represents one of the main marine predators of its time and a