Micropristis


Micropristis is an extinct genus of ganopristid sclerorhynchoid that lived in the Middle East and Europe during the Late Cretaceous.

Micropristis
Temporal range:
Micropristis solomonis rostrum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
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.



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