{{Short description|Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|93.9|83.6|Turonian-Santonian}} | taxon = Asflapristis | authority = Villalobos-Segura, Underwood, Ward, & Claeson, 2019<ref name="Villalobos-Segura et al. 2019">{{cite journal |last1=Villalobos-Segura |first1=E. |last2=Underwood |first2=C.J. |last3=Ward |first3=D.J. |last4=Claeson |first4=K.M. |date=2019 |title=The first three-dimensional fossils of Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfish: ''Asflapristis cristadentis'' gen. et sp. nov., and implications for the phylogenetic relations of the Sclerorhynchoidei (Chondrichthyes) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=17 |issue=21 |pages=1847–1870 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2019.1578832|bibcode=2019JSPal..17.1847V |s2cid=145940997 |url=https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27155/3/27155.pdf}}</ref> | type_species = †'''''Asflapristis cristadentis''''' | type_species_authority = Villalobos-Segura, Underwood, Ward, & Claeson, 2019 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision = *†''Asflapristis rugosa'' <br/><small>(Case, Schwimmer, Borodin & Leggett, 2001)</small><ref name="Case et al. 2001">{{cite journal |last1=Case |first1=G.R. |last2=Schwimmer |first2=D.R. |last3=Borodin |first3=P.D. |last4=Leggett |first4=J.J. |date=2001 |title=A new selachian fauna from the Eutaw Formation (Upper Cretaceous/early to middle Santonian) of Chattahoochee County, Georgia |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A |volume=261 |issue=4-6 |pages=83–102 |doi=10.1127/pala/261/2001/83 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289700342_A_new_selachian_fauna_from_the_Eutaw_Formation_Upper_CretaceousEarly_to_Middle_Santonian_of_Chattahoochee_County_Georgia}}</ref> | synonyms = {{collapsible list|title=Species synonymy| {{collapsible list|title=''A. rugosa''<ref name="Begat et al. 2023">{{cite journal |last1=Begat |first1=A. |last2=Kriwet |first2=J. |last3=Gelfo |first3=J.N. |last4=Cavalli |first4=S.G. |last5=Schultz |first5=J.A. |last6=Martin |first6=T. |date=2023 |title=The first southern hemisphere occurrence of the extinct Cretaceous sclerorhynchoid sawfish ''Ptychotrygon'' (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea), with a review of ''Ptychotrygon'' taxonomy |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=42 |issue=2 |article-number=e2162411 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2022.2162411 |doi-access=free|pmid=37564697 |pmc=7614936 }}</ref>| * ''Erguitaia rugosa'' <br/><small>Case, Schwimmer, Borodin & Leggett, 2001</small> * ''Ptychotrygon rugosum'' <br/><small>(Case, Schwimmer, Borodin & Leggett, 2001)</small> }} }} }}
'''''Asflapristis''''' is an extinct genus of ptychotrygonid sclerorhynchoid that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains two valid species:<ref name="Begat et al. 2023"/> '''''A. cristadentis''''' from the Akrabou Formation of Morocco<ref name="Villalobos-Segura et al. 2019"/> and '''''A. rugosa''''' from the Eutaw Formation of Georgia<ref name="Case et al. 2001"/> and Mississippi<ref name="Cicimurri et al. 2014">{{cite journal |last1=Cicimurri |first1=D.J. |last2=Ciampaglio |first2=C.N. |last3=Runyon |first3=K.E. |date=2014 |title=Late Cretaceous elasmobranchs from the Eutaw Formation at Luxapalila Creek, Lowndes County, Mississippi |journal=PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=1–36 |url=https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jvp/article/view/356}}</ref> and the Pleasant Creek Formation of North Carolina.<ref name="Cicimurri & Weems 2021">{{cite journal |last1=Cicimurri |first1=D.J. |last2=Weems |first2=R.E. |date=2021 |title=First record of ''Ptychotrygon rugosum'' (Case, Schwimmer, Borodin, and Leggett, 2001) (Batomorphii, Sclerorhynchiformes, Ptychotrygonidae) in the United States Atlantic Coastal Plain |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=41 |issue=2 |article-number=e1933996 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2021.1933996}}</ref> Articulated skeletons of ''A. cristadentis'' show it had secondarily lost the rostral denticles typical of sclerorhynchoids,<ref name="Villalobos-Segura et al. 2019"/> a process called "depristification".<ref name="Greenfield 2024">{{cite journal |last=Greenfield |first=T. |year=2024 |title=Pristification: Defining the convergent evolution of saws in sharks and rays (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) |journal=Mesozoic |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=121–124 |doi=10.11646/MESOZOIC.1.2.3|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Category:Sclerorhynchoidei Category:Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera