{"id":3786,"date":"2026-07-29T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/portfolio\/dakosaurus-vs-shark\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:33:53","slug":"dakosaurus-vs-shark","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/portfolio\/dakosaurus-vs-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Dakosaurus<\/em> vs. Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago, the top predator was the large but rare <em>Pliosaurus<\/em>. Most of the time, the shallow waters were plagued by two stem group representatives of potentially higher predators in today\u2019s food webs. The first any obviously the focussed player in this scene is <em>Dakosaurus<\/em>, of which a 5 m long skeleton gave the first opportunity to reconstruct the entire body beyond guessing (isolated teeth imply even bigger individuals). These fully marine crocodylomorphs had ichthyosaur-like bony eye rings, a feature that is absent in any form amongst most croc-like archosaurs. From that is known about articulated dentitions, it is likely that there was no lip covering, which contributes to the differences from their ecological heirs, the Cretaceous mosasaurs.<\/p>\n<p>The second predator would be hybodont sharks, in this case <em>Asteracanthus<\/em>, which is a 3 m long relative of modern sharks and among the biggest cartilaginous fish in this Jurassic setting. There is some indication that modern sharks should be around \u2013 including the lamniforms, ancestral to the Great White. Still, the dominant fossil record tells us that true sharks were right before their big moment. Who knows what they had prepared in the endless ocean, a region that is barely preserved in the known fossils. Here, in what is today Southern Germany, hybodont sharks were at risk of becoming a meal for <em>Dakosaurus<\/em> \u2013 proven by stomach content!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital painting of two top predators of the Solnhofen archipelago \u2013 proven by stomach content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3784,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pn_jahr":"2026","pn_taxon":"Dakosaurus; Asteracanthus; Pliosaurus","pn_auftraggeber":"","pn_ausstellung":"","pn_masse":"","pn_quelle_url":"","pn_lizenz":"\u00a9 Palaeonavix","pn_alt_url":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/index.php\/palaeo-illustration\/dakosaurus-vs-shark","pn_mitwirkende":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[158],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-palaeo-illustration"],"acf":{"pn_jahr":"2026","pn_taxon":"Dakosaurus; Asteracanthus; Pliosaurus","pn_auftraggeber":"","pn_ausstellung":"","pn_masse":"","pn_quelle_url":"","pn_lizenz":"\u00a9 Palaeonavix","pn_mitwirkende":"","pn_verwandte":null,"pn_alt_url":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/index.php\/palaeo-illustration\/dakosaurus-vs-shark"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}