Biology:Micropristis
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Short description: Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes
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| Micropristis solomonis rostrum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | †Ganopristidae |
| Genus: | †Micropristis Cappetta, 1980[2] |
| Species: | †M. solomonis
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| †Micropristis solomonis (Hay, 1903)[1]
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Micropristis is an extinct genus of ganopristid sclerorhynchoid that lived in the Middle East and Europe during the Late Cretaceous.
References
- ↑ 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. https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1500.
- ↑ Cappetta, H. (1980). "Les Sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. II. Batoïdes.". Palaeontographica, Abteilung A 168 (5-6): 149-229.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q16920222 entry
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