†Rhinobatus eretes Hay 1903 (guitarfish)
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Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1903. On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19:395-452
Belongs to Rhinobatus according to O. P. Hay 1903
Sister taxa: Rhinobatus antunesi, Rhinobatus bruxelliensis, Rhinobatus morinicus, Rhinobatus tesselatus
Type specimen: AMNH 4500. Its type locality is Hadjoula (Day collection, AMNH), which is in a Cenomanian carbonate limestone in Lebanon.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Hadjoula (Day collection, AMNH)
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