05114 - Top Beautiful 1.29 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous
05114 - Top Beautiful 1.29 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous 05114 - Top Beautiful 1.29 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous 05114 - Top Beautiful 1.29 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous 05114 - Top Beautiful 1.29 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous 05114 - Top Beautiful 1.29 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous

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05114 - Top Beautiful 1.29 Inch Sclerorhynchus (Cartilaginous Sawfish) Tooth Late Cretaceous

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Species
† Sclerorhynchus sp, Woodward (1889) - Cartilaginous sawfish
Age
Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian stage, (~66 Million Years)
Location
Oued Zem, Morocco
Formation
Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphate beds)
Size
33 mm   •    in
Weight
1 g   •    oz
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Description

Beautiful tooth of a cartilaginous sawfish. It has no restorations or repairs.

Sclerorhynchus sp, Woodward 1889 (cartilaginous fish)
Chondrichthyes - Sclerorhynchiformes - Sclerorhynchidae

   
PaleoDB taxon number: 34712

Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 1-613

Parent taxon: Sclerorhynchidae according to M. E. Suarez and H. Cappetta 2004

See also Arambourg 1940, Cappetta 1987, Herman 1975, Jordan 1963, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: Ankistrorhynchus, Baharipristis, Biropristis, Borodinopristis, Celtipristis, Ctenopristis, Ganopristis, Ischyrhiza, Kiestus, Libanopristis, Marckgrafia, Micropristis, Onchosaurus, Plicatopristis, Pucapristis, Renpetia, Schizorhiza, Schizorhizinae

Subtaxa: Sclerorhynchus atavus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Environments: marine (7 collections), estuary/bay (2), terrestrial (1)

Age range: 84.9 to 66.043 Ma

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Israel (1 collection), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), United States (6: Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas)

Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence.

 

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