Onchosaurus
Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Onchosaurus is an extinct genus of sclerorhynchid sawskate 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, Chile,[1] Peru and the United States.[2]
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Fossil vertebrae of Onchosaurus marocanus from Khouribga (Morocco) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Superorder: | Batoidea |
Order: | Rajiformes |
Family: | †Sclerorhynchidae |
Genus: | †Onchosaurus Gervais, 1852 |
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†Onchosaurus radicalis Gervais, 1852 | |
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