The largest prehistoric marine creature

The class Cangosaurus is named Cangosauria, a reptile that existed in the late Cretaceous period among marine organisms that became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. It is similar to the large lizards in terms of potatoes. The largest Cangosaurus category was Hoffmann's Cangosaurus, which was about 17.3 meters long and weighed 16 tons, with its nostrils on the top of its head and flattened limbs resembling the shape of a pulp scull, which could paddle, forming a form that could adapt to marine survival.

The Hoffmann's Cryptosaurus had a stronger head than other Cryptosaurids, but was unable to swallow its prey whole because of the special structure between the bones of its lower jaw. The optic nerve is weak, but the olfactory and auditory nerves are very well developed. Since it uses its lungs to breathe, it can stay in the ocean for a long time with one change of breath.

Habits of Cryptosaurus species

Food is abundant in the ocean, but at the same time competition is fierce. The food on which Cryptosaurus relied was mainly serpentine, golden kitchen sharks, sea turtles, and lamellosaurs. The golden chef shark, a prehistoric shark, could reach 8 meters in length and was a medium-sized predator with both speed and endurance. The size of the Cangosaurus gradually became huge in the process of biological evolution, and its character became more and more ferocious. Scientists speculate that an adult Cangosaurus could have fought alone against several schools of golden chef sharks, which became extinct 82 million years ago. The Cangosaurus was the most powerful predator of all marine animals during the same period, and over the course of 100,000 years they drove the food it relied on to extinction, eventually becoming the ocean's dominant force.

The discovery process of the Crangosauridae

In the 1680s a group of quarry workers were the first to discover a fossil of the Crangosauridae family, in a tunnel, and this discovery came to the attention of Hoffman, a Maastricht surgeon and fossil hunter, who responded by making the discovery known.

By the 1720s, the fossil known as "Maastricht's giant animal fossil" was renamed Mosasaur (Meuse River lizard), and nine years later, it was officially named Hoffman's Cangosaurus. However, it was not until the 19th century that the fossils were identified as Cangosaurus.