Propristiophorus is an extinct genus of sawshark that lived in the Late Cretaceous. It contains a single named species, P. tumidens, from Lebanon.[1] Additional unnamed species have been found in Antarctica, Japan, and Madagascar.[2] Propristiophorus was previously synonymized with Pristiophorus,[3] but more recent authors have considered it a distinct genus.[2][4]
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| Partial impression of P. tumidens (MNHN.F.SHA1593) at the National Museum of Natural History, France | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Pristiophoriformes |
| Family: | Pristiophoridae |
| Genus: | †Propristiophorus Woodward, 1932[1] |
| Species: | †P. tumidens
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| †Propristiophorus tumidens Woodward, 1932
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References
edit- ^ a b Woodward, A.S. (1932). "A Cretaceous pristiophorid shark". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 10. 10 (59): 476–478. doi:10.1080/00222933208673596.
- ^ a b Cione, A.L.; Santillana, S.; Gouiric-Cavalli, S.; Hospitaleche, C.A.; Gelfo, J.N.; López, G.M.; Reguero, M. (2018). "Before and after the K/Pg extinction in West Antarctica: New marine fish records from Marambio (Seymour) Island". Cretaceous Research. 85: 250–265. Bibcode:2018CrRes..85..250C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.01.004. hdl:11336/99687. S2CID 133767014.
- ^ Cappetta, H. (1980). "Les Sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. I. Requins". Palaeontographica, Abteilung A. 168 (1–4): 69–148.
- ^ Herman, J.; Van Waes, H. (2014). "Observations concerning the evolution and the parasystematics of all the living and fossil Chlamydoselachiformes, Squatiniformes, Orectolobiformes, and Pristiophoriformes, based on both biological and odontological data. Suggestion of a possible origin of the order Pristiophoriformes, of the order Ganopristiformes and a global synthesis of the previous systematics proposals" (PDF). Géominpal Belgica. 6 (1): 1–347. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-17.
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