Dakosaurus Research Paper

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The name Dakosaurus means "tearing lizard". The Dakosaurus ' average length is 4-5 meters

long which, in American length system, is about 13-16 feet long, and weighed about 18,000 lbs.

It 's Latin name is "Dakosaurus Andiniensis". The person who named it was Friedrich August Von

Quenstedt in 1856. The Dakosaurus is a very interesting animal and there are a lot more facts

about them.

The Dakosaurus ' was in the Metriorhynchidae genus. The Dakosaurus ' were carnivorous and

they lived in the ocean. They had a unusual way of eating their prey, they would "open their

mouths like a suction cup that would suck in many fish and animals". The age expectancy of

them dying is unknown. The Dakosaurus lived around the late