†Onchosaurus pharao Dames 1887 (elasmobranch)
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Chondrichthyes - Sclerorhynchiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Alternative combination: Titanichthys pharao
Synonym: Ischyrhiza iwakiensis Uyeno and Hasegawa 1986
Belongs to Onchosaurus according to J. Amalfitano et al. 2017
See also Antunes and Cappetta 2002, Corral et al. 2012, Dames 1887, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Delgadillo Escobar et al. 2015, Tabaste 1963 and Uyeno and Hasegawa 1986
Sister taxa: Onchosaurus (Onchosaurus), Onchosaurus radicalis
Type specimens:
- Onchosaurus pharao: Its type locality is 10 km west of pyramids of Giza, which is in a Coniacian marine horizon in Egypt
- Ischyrhiza iwakiensis: ICMCF 116, an other (rostral spine). Its type locality is Iwaki, Santonian, which is in a Santonian marine horizon in the Tamayama Formation of Japan.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Niger (6), Syria (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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