Schizorhizidae
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Schizorhizidae

Kirkland & Aguillón-Martínez, 2002[1]
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Schizorhizidae is an extinct family of cartilaginous fish from the Late Cretaceous belonging to the suborder Sclerorhynchoidei. This family contains the genera Harranahynchus and Schizorhiza.[2] It was originally named as a subfamily of Sclerorhynchidae,[1] but was later raised to the rank of family.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Kirkland, J.I.; Aguillón-Martínez, M.C. (2002). "Schizorhiza: a unique sawfish paradigm from the Difunta Group, Coahuila, Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 19 (1): 16–24.
  2. Kaddumi, H.F. (2009). "A new genus and species of sawfishes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea) from the late Maastrichtian sediments of Harrana". Fossils of the Harrana Fauna and the Adjacent Areas. Eternal River Museum of Natural History. pp. 178–187.
  3. Greenfield, T. (2021). "Corrections to the nomenclature of sawskates (Rajiformes, Sclerorhynchoidei)". Bionomina. 22 (1): 39–41. doi:10.11646/bionomina.22.1.3. S2CID 239067365.


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