Libanopristis
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Libanopristis is an extinct genus of sclerorhynchid sawfish. The taxa is known from the marine strata of Late Cretaceous Lebanon (99.7 to 94.3 million years ago). It was 1.6 meters (5.2 ft) in length.[1]
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Libanopristis hiram fossil -
Tooth comparison with other sawfish species, (Libanopristis in brown)
Bibliography
- Lyle Squire Jr., Barbara E. Wueringer and Shaun P. Collin The biology of extinct and extant sawfish (Batoidea:Sclerorhynchidae and Pristidae) (2009)
- H. Capetta. 1980. Les selaciens du Cretace superieur du Liban. II: Batoides. Palaeontolographica Abt. A 168(5-6):149-229
- A Pictorial Guide to Fossils by Gerard Ramon Case
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