159: PNSO Cretoxyrhina (Aidan 2021) Review

I’m really excited to bring you yet another marine animal from PNSO: Cretoxyrhina, the Ginsu Shark! While I loved the Helicoprion, it’s nice to see a true shark this time, and one that ISN’T Megalodon! This beautifully metallic shark is reconstructed along lamniform lines, and sculpted wonderfully, down to details like claspers and the lunate tail as proposed by Shimada 2006. It’s really exciting that PNSO is helping us fill out the oft-neglected domain of the ancient seas, which is either glaringly missing in many collections, or else filled with multiple versions of the few usual, popular suspects. Now if PNSO could give us even more marine life, from sea scorpions to plesiosauroids and even more fish, such as Xiphactinus or Leedsicthys, that would really start populating our collections with a diversity approaching that of our land-based animals!