Micropristis

Micropristis is an extinct genus of ganopristid sclerorhynchoid that lived in the Middle East and Europe during the Late Cretaceous. The type specimen is known from the Cenomanian of Lebanon, and other specimens referrable to this genus have been found in Santonian-Campanian age rocks of Europe.[4]

Micropristis
Temporal range:
Micropristis solomonis rostrum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Rajiformes
Family: †Ganopristidae
Genus: †Micropristis
Cappetta, 1980[1]
Species:
†M. solomonis
Binomial name
†Micropristis solomonis
(Hay, 1903)[2]
Synonyms
  • Sclerorhynchus solomonis
    Hay, 1903
  • Sclerorhynchus sentus
    Hay, 1903
  • Sclerorhynchus germaniae
    Albers & Weiler, 1964[3]

References
  1. Cappetta, H. (1980). "Les Sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. II. Batoïdes". Palaeontographica, Abteilung A. 168 (5–6): 149–229.
  2. Hay, O.P. (1903). "On a collection of Upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 19 (10): 395–452.
  3. Albers, H.; Weiler, W. (1964). "Eine Fischfauna aus der oberen Kreide von Aachen und neuere Funde von Fischresten aus dem Maestricht des angrenzenden belgisch-holländischen Raumes". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 120: 1–33.
  4. Guinot, Guillaume; Cappetta, Henri; Underwood, Charlie J.; Ward, David J. (2012). "Batoids (Elasmobranchii: Batomorphii) from the British and French Late Cretaceous". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (3): 445–474. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.588255. S2CID 129777967.


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