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ONCHOPRISTIS
(on-cho-priss-tis)
Onchopristis
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 |
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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.

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