Propristis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|56.0|5.333|Eocene-Miocene}}

| image = Die stämme der wirbeltiere (1919) (20937469632).jpg

| image_caption = Rostrum of P. schweinfurthi

| taxon = Propristis

| authority = Dames, 1883{{cite journal|last=Dames |first=W.B. |year=1883 |title=Über eine tertiäre Wirbelthierfauna von der westlichen Insel des Birket-el-Qurûn im Fajum (Aegypten) |journal=Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin |volume=1883 |issue=1 |pages=129–153 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/93358#page/155/mode/1up}}

| type_species = †Propristis schweinfurthi

| type_species_authority = Dames, 1883

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision =

• †Propristis mayumbensis
  Dartevelle & Casier, 1943{{cite journal|last1=Dartevelle |first1=E. |last2=Casier |first2=E. |year=1943 |title=Les poissons fossiles du Bas-Congo et des régions voisines |journal=Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Série A (Minéralogie, Géologie, Paléontologie) |series=Série 3 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–200}}

| synonyms =

{{collapsible list|title=Genus synonymy|

• Amblypristis
  Dames, 1888{{cite journal|last=Dames |first=W.B. |year=1888 |title=Amblypristis cheops nov. gen. nov. sp. aus dem Eocän Aegyptens. |journal=Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin |volume=1888 |issue=6 |pages=106–109 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35579#page/120/mode/1up}}
• Eopristis
  Stromer, 1905{{cite journal|last=Stromer |first=E. |year=1905 |title=Die Fischreste des mittleren und oberen Eocäns von Ägypten. I. Teil: Die Selachier, A. Myliobatiden und Pristiden |journal=Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients |volume=18 |issue=1–2 |pages=37–58 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50645#page/49/mode/1up}}
• Copristis
  Kinkelin, 1905 (lapsus calami){{cite journal|last=Kinkelin |first=F. |year=1905 |title=Zum Andenken an Dr. phil. Albert von Reinach. Mit Porträt |journal=Bericht der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt Am Main |volume=1905 |issue=1 |pages=63–72 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36154#page/75/mode/1up}}

}}

{{collapsible list|title=Species synonymy|

{{collapsible list|title=P. schweinfurthi|

• Amblypristis cheops
  Dames, 1888
• Eopristis reinachi
  Stromer, 1905

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Propristis is an extinct genus of sawfish that lived from the Eocene to the Miocene. It contains two valid species, P. schweinfurthi and P. mayumbensis. It has been found in Egypt,{{cite journal|last=Fraas |first=E. |year=1907 |title=Säge von Propristis schweinfurthi Dames aus dem oberen Eocän von Ägypten |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie |volume=1907 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/155668#page/83/mode/1up}} Cabinda, Morocco,{{cite journal|last1=Adnet |first1=S. |last2=Cappetta |first2=H. |last3=Tabuce |first3=R. |year=2010 |title=A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=147 |issue=6 |pages=860–870 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248686712 |doi=10.1017/S0016756810000348|bibcode=2010GeoM..147..860A |s2cid=129386566 }} Qatar,{{cite journal|last=Casier |first=E. |year=1971 |title=Sur un materiel ichthyologique des "Midra (and Saila) shales" du Qatar (Golfe Persique) |journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=1–9 |url=https://archive.org/details/bulletin-de-linstitut-royal-des-sciences-naturelles-de-belgique-47-002-001-009}} Spain,{{cite journal|last1=Farrés |first1=F. |last2=Fierstine |first2=H.L. |year=2009 |title=First record of the extinct sawfish Propristis schweinfurthi Dames, 1883 (Batoidea: Pristiformes: Pristidae) from the middle Eocene of Spain |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=83 |issue=4 |pages=459 |doi=10.1007/s12542-009-0029-1|bibcode=2009PalZ...83..459F |citeseerx=10.1.1.932.8681 |s2cid=13944399 }} the United Kingdom,{{cite book |last1=Kemp |first1=D.J |last2=Kemp |first2=E.M. |last3=Ward |first3=D.J. |date=1990 |title=An Illustrated Guide to the British Middle Eocene Vertebrates |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280316587 |location=London |publisher=David J. Ward |pages=36–37}} and the United States.{{cite journal|last=Dunkle |first=D.H. |year=1951 |title=New Western Hemisphere occurrences of fossil selachians |journal=Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences |volume=41 |issue=11 |pages=344–347 |jstor=24531222 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24531222 |url-access=registration}} Isolated rostral denticles are the most common remains, but rostra have also been found.