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A partial rostrum of the sawfish Pristis lathami Galeotti, 1837, from the Eocene of South Carolina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

David J. Cicimurri
David J. Cicimurri*
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Bob Campbell Geology Museum, Clemson University, 103 Garden Trail, Clemson, South Carolina 29634,
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Sawfishes of the family Pristidae comprise a group of rays having dorsoventrally flattened, sharklike bodies and elongated rostra bearing a row of teeth on each side. Some species may attain total body lengths (TL) of 7 m or more (Compagno and Last, 1999). Unlike the similarly-shaped sawsharks of the family Pristiophoridae, the number of rostral teeth and their proportions are established in utero and maintained into adulthood (Slaughter and Springer, 1968; Miller, 1974), and if a tooth is lost the alveolus remains empty. In addition, the gills are located on the underside of the body and there are no rostral barbels (Tricas et al., 1997; Compagno and Last, 1999). Recent Pristidae consists of five to seven species (depending on synonymy) within two genera, Pristis (Linck, 1790) and Anoxypristis (White and Moy-Thomas, 1941).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , May 2007 , pp. 597 - 601
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