Records of the northern hemisphere Cretaceous Sawfish genusOnchopristis(order batoidea) from New Zealand
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
- Vol. 20 (2) , 263-272
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1977.10420706
Abstract
Specimens of a ganopristine sawfish, identified as Onchopristis dunklei praecursor Thurmond, have been recognised in rocks of Piripauan-Haumurian age (Campanian-Maastrichtian) from two New Zealand localities. Onchopristis is a genus previously known only from the northern hemisphere. The New Zealand occurrences constitute not only the first record of the genus in the southern hemisphere, but also provide the youngest examples known, indicating that Onchopristis had a much longer time range in the Cretaceous than was previously thought.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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