Name: Rhinobatos hakelensis
Age: Middle Cretaceous, Cenomanian Stage
Size: mm (25.4mm=1 inch): 115 mm in length (if starightened) and 35 mm wide on 112 mm by 67 mm matrix.
Location: Haqel, Lebanon
Code: L073
Price: $695 - Sold
 Description:
A rarely seen member of the Order Rajiformes, Family Rhinobatidae,
it is a member of the cartilaginous fishes known as "guitar fish"
due to its body shape. Preservation of cartilage is much less common;
preservation as fine as this is exceptional. Notice all the detail
in the fins and preserved head structure. While this particular species
when extinct by the end of the Cretaceous, the genus has lived on
into the present. |
