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Just made this one obscure fossil shark, not too much paleoart depicting this fella and not much representation in popular culture either for it either. Had only I depicted this shark sooner this could've been averted. Anyways, have fun with this...... what is this? Isurus mantelli? Otodus appendiculatus? Oxyrhina mantelli? Squalus zygaena? Alopias sp.? I don't know to be honest.

Okay but for realzies, I'm making this ginsu shark (Cretoxyrhina mantelli) for a graph that's just getting started on showing examples of gigantism in hyperpredatory sharks, and the ginsu is one such example I am reconstructing for. Others which are planned to be included are Cardabiodon, Leptostyrax, great whites, tiger sharks, Ptychodus, Otodus/Carcharocles, Paratodus, and a couple others as well. The color version won't be done for a little while, unfortunately, but more shronks are incoming soon however.

References
Skeletal reconstruction (from Shimada et al. 2006)
Cranial reconstruction (from Shimada 1994)

Description
Just made this one obscure fossil shark, not too much paleoart depicting this fella and not much representation in popular culture either for it either. Had only I depicted this shark sooner this could've been averted. Anyways, have fun with this...... what is this? Isurus mantelli? Otodus appendiculatus? Oxyrhina mantelli? Squalus zygaena? Alopias sp.? I don't know to be honest.

Okay but for realzies, I'm making this ginsu shark (Cretoxyrhina mantelli) for a graph that's just getting started on showing examples of gigantism in hyperpredatory sharks, and the ginsu is one such example I am reconstructing for. Others which are planned to be included are Cardabiodon, Leptostyrax, great whites, tiger sharks, Ptychodus, Otodus/Carcharocles, Paratodus, and a couple others as well. The color version won't be done for a little while, unfortunately, but more shronks are incoming soon however.

References
Skeletal reconstruction (from Shimada et al. 2006)
Cranial reconstruction (from Shimada 1994)