Dalpiazia Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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The holotype of D. stromeri from Libya | |
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Dalpiazia stromeri tooth from Morocco | |
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†Dalpiazia Checchia-Rispoli, 1933
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†Dalpiazia stromeri Checchia-Rispoli, 1933
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Dalpiazia is an extinct genus of sclerorhynchid sawfish whose fossils are found in rocks dating from the Maastrichtian stage in mines in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Syria. [1] The type species D. stromeri was named by Checchia-Rispoli (1933) in honor of Ernst Stromer, [2] and the holotype, a rostral tooth, was found in Tripolitania, Libya.
The validity of Dalpiazia has been questioned on the basis of its similarities to Ischyrhiza, a subgenus of Onchosaurus. [3]
Dalpiazia Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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The holotype of D. stromeri from Libya | |
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Dalpiazia stromeri tooth from Morocco | |
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†Dalpiazia Checchia-Rispoli, 1933
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†Dalpiazia stromeri Checchia-Rispoli, 1933
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Dalpiazia is an extinct genus of sclerorhynchid sawfish whose fossils are found in rocks dating from the Maastrichtian stage in mines in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Syria. [1] The type species D. stromeri was named by Checchia-Rispoli (1933) in honor of Ernst Stromer, [2] and the holotype, a rostral tooth, was found in Tripolitania, Libya.
The validity of Dalpiazia has been questioned on the basis of its similarities to Ischyrhiza, a subgenus of Onchosaurus. [3]