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:
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| Micropristis solomonis rostrum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | †Ganopristidae |
| Genus: | †Micropristis Cappetta, 1980[2] |
| Species: | †M. solomonis
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| †Micropristis solomonis | |
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References
edit- ^ 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. hdl: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.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2012JSPal..10..445G. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.588255. S2CID 129777967.
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