Micropristis
Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes
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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  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Suborder: | †Sclerorhynchoidei |
| Family: | †Ganopristidae |
| Genus: | †Micropristis Cappetta, 1980[1] |
| Species: | †M. solomonis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Micropristis solomonis | |
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