Onchosaurus
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| Onchosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Fossil vertebrae of Onchosaurus marocanus from Khouribga (Morocco) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Suborder: | †Sclerorhynchoidei |
| Genus: | †Onchosaurus Gervais, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| †Onchosaurus radicalis Gervais, 1852 | |
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Onchosaurus is an extinct genus of sclerorhynchoid fish from the Late Cretaceous (84.9 to 66.043 million years ago). Its fossils have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Egypt, Brazil, Congo, Morocco, France, Niger, Japan, Colombia, Chile,[1] Peru and the United States.[2]
