Asflapristis
Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes
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Asflapristis is an extinct genus of ptychotrygonid sclerorhynchoid that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains two valid species:[3] A. cristadentis from the Akrabou Formation of Morocco[1] and A. rugosa from the Eutaw Formation of Georgia[2] and Mississippi[4] and the Pleasant Creek Formation of North Carolina.[5] Articulated skeletons of A. cristadentis show it had secondarily lost the rostral denticles typical of sclerorhynchoids,[1] a process called "depristification".[6]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Suborder: | †Sclerorhynchoidei |
| Family: | †Ptychotrygonidae |
| Genus: | †Asflapristis Villalobos-Segura, Underwood, Ward, & Claeson, 2019[1] |
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| †Asflapristis cristadentis Villalobos-Segura, Underwood, Ward, & Claeson, 2019 | |
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