Named By: | Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach in 1917 |
Time Period: | Albian-Maastrichtian |
Location: | Mostly North Africa, but evidence suggests a cosmopolitan distribution |
Size: | 8 meters long |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | Usually just the barbs and parts of the rostrum |
Classification: | | Chordata | Chondrichthyes | Elasmobranchii | Batoidea | Rajiformes | Pristiformes | Pristidae | |
Also known as: | | Platyspondylus | |
Onchopristis is a genus of extinct giant sawfish that lived in the Lower Cretaceous to Upper Cretaceous in North Africa and New Zealand. It had an elongated snout lined laterally with barbed teeth.