Dunkleosteus the screenplay

                                                                                        “Dunkleosteus”

 

After doing some research and speaking with a renowned paleontologist by the name of John Long, an Australian paleontologist who is currently a strategic Professor in Paleontology at Flinders University, in Adelaide, South Australia. How a prehistoric fish like “Dunkleosteus” terrelli could still exist and be in the waters in present time. 

 

In 1938 a Coelacanth which is a placoderm thought to be extinct, was found off the coast of Africa by fishermen. A Coelacanth is a Placoderm, which is a primitive jawed fish as is Dunkleosteus which is usually known only from fossil remains from the Devonian period). The Devonian period is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era, spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 419 million years ago, to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 358.9. million years ago. This could make it very possible for a Placoderm like Dunkleosteus to exist in present day.

 

Dunkleosteus had armour plating on the front third of its body. And it was shown to have been a cannibal. Dunkleosteus force bite was remarkably powerful at 11,000 pounds and could suck its prey in its mouth in a 50th of a second.

 

Dunkleosteus grew up to be over thirty feet long with a 3 inch thick armor plated skull. The bladed dentition focused the bite force into a small area, the fang tip, at an incredible force of 80,000 pounds per square inch. And could suck it’s prey in a 50TH of a second. Wow, now that is one hell of a fish.

 

After doing some research and speaking with a renowned paleontologist by the name of John Long, an Australian paleontologist who is currently a strategic Professor in Paleontology at Flinders University, in Adelaide, South Australia.