Weird extinct animals

he and the hammerhead would make a good team

>>2292781

LOL!

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Helicoprion
Shark with a chainsaw

>>2292795
>lol dudes what if I put a pizzaroller in my mouth

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>>2292775
>>2292795

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>>2292795
How would this even work

>>2293373
>>2292795
Helicoprion was basically just a ratfish with a weird thing in the back of its mouth. It didn't look nearly that weird.

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>Reconstructions of Helicoprion since 1899. Earliest models (a–d) posited the whorl as an external defensive structure, but (e–l) feeding reconstructions dominate more recent hypotheses. Credits: (a) Woodward [2]; (b) Simoens [11]; (c) Karpinsky [12]; (d) Obruchev [7]; (e) Van den Berg in Obruchev [7]; (f) John [8]; (g) Carr [9]; (h) Eaton [4]; (i) Parrish in Purdy [10]; (j) Troll in Matsen & Troll [13] based on Bendix-Almgreen [5]; (k) Lebedev [6]; (l) Troll & Ramsay, this study. Configuration of gill slits and fins based on related fish, e.g. Caseodus and Ornithoprion [14].

>>2293373
>>2293393
I've read a hypothesis that heliocoprion's jaw shape is literally ideal for slashing through flesh the curved shape maximizes damage at the focal point of the curve. Heliocoprion lived at a time that coincided with the first fossilized giant squid remains. Giant squid are made entirely of flesh...

>>2293418
>that tail whorl
Well, anything goes

>>2293418
Those are some retardedly designed animals.

>>2293629
It's less retarded than the one directly below it. At least we have sharks that kill with their tail to make the guess somewhat grounded.

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>>2292775
The rare riding shark.

>>2293665
>no cowboy boots
2/5

>>2293665

That's a big dick

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This deceased, dangerous shark.

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Just doesn't have the same, panic-inducing effect.

Even sharks look like U boot

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>>2293373
nobody actually knows

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Opabinia

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Anomalocaris

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Hallucigenia

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Aegirocassis benmoulae

>>2293804
alex broadbent what are you doing

>>2294029

I like the think it was more like purdy and parrish or richard ellis. with the teeth deeper in, maybe two spirals.

Karpinsky stuff just seems nonsense.

Another one i wonder about is them being horizontal in the mouth, kinda like alex broadbent, but with a shark. Mostly everything looks vertical.

The goofy lower outer jaw stuff, though, may be good for bottom feeding if the shark wants to dig through the bottom for food.

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>>2293878

>>2293804
we have a rare skull heres a reconstruction of it

see these >>2293807 >>2293373

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>>2293665
>Stethacanthus
you are like a little baby watch this METO

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>>2292775

>>2294159
Wikipedia doesn't have anything on this guy and google results are shit too, do you have any links explaining the two mouths or know yourself? I'm really curious about this freaky fish now.

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>>2294159

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>>2294594
Found this.

>>2293885
What

>>2293730
my sides

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>>2293730

>>2293418
>>2293804
Not a one of them has a buzzsaw dick. I am disappoint.

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>>2294877
>Richard Drillpress

>>2292775
Basically an ELINT suite shark

>>2294950
>aheeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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>THICC LIZARD

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>heroes in a half shell

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>>2295024

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>>2294997

>>2295162
Looks like Jar Jar Binks

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>>2295163
Not really

>>2295145
It's like a living seatcushion

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>>2294158
whoops

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>>2294689
>>2294594
We need to go deeper

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>>2292775

>>2295408
Pokémon

>>2293418
Sorry I'm confused. Are those all the possibilities of what the shark could look like? If so how do they even know the chainsaw belongs to them?

>>2295476
Before we had the skull shown in >>2295406, lit all we had to go on for trying to imagine what the animal looked like was that central whorl of teeth. People guessed it was probably something shark-like based on the teeth and whatnot but that's as good as we could do.

All those pictures are what different researchers have proposed for the placement of the tooth whorl in something shark-like.