05183 - Beautiful 1.72 Inch Onchopristis numidus Cretaceous Sawfish Rostral Tooth In Matrix Brochantite Rhinophacops

Rhinophacops

Jouve 2005

Unbroken specimen

which makes it very special

This species is always characterized by 5 to 7 crests

05183 - Beautiful 1.72 Inch Onchopristis numidus Cretaceous Sawfish Rostral Tooth In Matrix Brochantite RhinophacopsOnchopristis tooth in its natural matrix. Onchopristis is a genus of extinct giant sawfish that lived in the Lower Cretaceous to Upper Cretaceous in North Africa and New Zealand. It had an elongated snout lined laterally with barbed teeth. It is a large sawfish, known from remains throughout North America, North Africa and New Zealand. It was very large, up to 8 m (26. 2 ft) long when fully grown. As with modern sawfish, Onchopristis's eyes were on