LOCATION Taouz, Errachidia province, South Morocco
FORMATION Ifezouane Formation, Red Sandstone Beds, KemKem Basin
SIZE 60.0 mm • 2.36 in (The Biggest)
Great collection of 14 specimens. All of them have glued and restored (filled) fractures.
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. It is a large sawfish, known from remains throughout North America, North Africa and New Zealand. It was very large, up to 8 m (26.2 ft) long when fully grown. As with modern sawfish, Onchopristis's eyes were on top of its head, to spot predators rather than prey, and its mouth and gills were under its body.
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- Ejemplar
- Conjunto fino de púas rostrales de pez sierra
- Objeto
- sin matriz
- Nombre científico
- Onchopristis numidus (14)
- Periodo geológico
- Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian stage, (~96 Million Years)
- Estado
- En buen estado