Sclerorhynchus solomonis Hay 1903 (ray)

Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae

Alternative combination: Micropristis solominis

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 Sclerorhynchus according to O. P. Hay 1903

See also Cappetta 1980, Cappetta 1987 and Suárez and Cappetta 2004

Sister taxa: Sclerorhynchus atavus, Sclerorhynchus fanninensis, Sclerorhynchus priscus, Sclerorhynchus sentus

Type specimen: 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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