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| Sclerorhynchus |
| Type |
ray |
| Length |
3 ft 4 in (1 m) |
| Movement |
swimming |
| Age |
70 million years ago |
| Diet |
carnivore |
| Environment |
ocean floor |
| Distribution |
Morocco, Lebanon and USA |
Sclerorhynchus is an extinct genus of primitive skate that lived in the Cretaceous.
Despite being a skate, it looked more like a sawfish, having a long snouth with tooth-like serrations lining the sides. Physically it looked like a somewhat flattened shark with enlarged, wing-like pectoral fins. It probably used these to glide over the ocean floor, propelled by its tail, weeding out shrimps, shellfish and flounders from the sand with its long snout.
