Libanopristis
Appearance
Libanopristis Temporal range:
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L. hiram fossil | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Superorder: | Batoidea |
Order: | Rajiformes |
Family: | †Ganopristidae |
Genus: | †Libanopristis Cappetta, 1980[2] |
Species: | †L. hiram
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Binomial name | |
†Libanopristis hiram | |
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Libanopristis is an extinct genus of ganopristid sclerorhynchoid that lived in Lebanon 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.
- ^ Cappetta, H. (1980). "Les Sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. II. Batoïdes". Palaeontographica, Abteilung A. 168 (5–6): 149–229.