Image from the Smithsonian-permit for educational use. “Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.”
"This specimen comes from the Cretaceous chalk of Kansas. It’s a nearly complete skeleton of a 12 foot Xiphactinus fish with another smaller fish partly digested within the stomach of the large fish. The smaller fish is Gillicus arcuatus and would have been about 4 feet long. The ends of the jaws were sticking out of the rock and broken down with all teeth weathered away and the top of the skull is badly damaged. This specimen was excavated by George F Sternberg in 1925." From a letter from the Smithsonian. Image from the Smithsonian-permit for educational use. “Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.” A trimmed photo (older image of the Smithsonian). The smaller fish can be seen between the ribs of the larger fish-so it is within the larger fish not underneath it. The most reasonable way this combination of fossils could have occured was within a massive, rapid, mud slurry that engulfed the larger fish thus engulfing and petrifying both fish before either could significantly deteriorate. This may have occured by the fishes being deposited as part of a massive influx of what secular geology calls the Western Interior Sea. Another way to view this is that it represents some of the rapid yet massive ebb and flow of muddy matricies during the Noah Flood Account. Please note that the larger fish's back is arched as happens in the "throws of death" of many animals.
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