Rhinobatos
hakelensis
Class Chondrichthyes, Order Rajiformes, Family Rhinobatidae
Geological
Time: Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage
Size: 115
mm in length (if starightened)
Fossil Site:
Haqel, Lebanon
 Description:
A rarely seen member of the Order Rajiformes, Family Rhinobatidae,
it is a member of the cartilaginous fishes known as "guitar
fish" due to its body shape. Preservation of cartilage is much
less common; preservation as fine as this is exceptional. Notice
all the detail in the fins and preserved head structure. While this
particular species when extinct by the end of the Cretaceous, the
genus has lived on into the present.
Also
see: other Class Chondrichthyes fish
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