{{Short description|Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Italic title}} {{Taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Upper Cretaceous}} | image = Cyclobatis major 1.JPG | image_caption = Fossil of ''Cyclobatis major'' | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Chondrichthyes | ordo = Rajiformes | familia = †Cyclobatidae | genus = '''''Cyclobatis''''' | genus_authority = Egerton, 1844 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Cyclobatis longicanudatus'' *''Cyclobatis major'' *''Cyclobatis oligodactylus'' }}
[[File:Fauna of Haqel and Hjoula.png|thumb|left|Fauna and depositional environment of the coeval Hakel and Hjoula localities, including ''Cyclobatis'']] '''''Cyclobatis''''' is an extinct genus of stingray-like skate from the Upper Cretaceous of what is now Lebanon.<ref name=":0">{{cite thesis |last=Claeson |first=Kerin Michele |date=May 2010 |title=Trends in evolutionary morphology: a case study in the relationships of angel sharks and batoid fishes |degree=PhD |publisher=The University of Texas at Austin |hdl=2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1347}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1144/GSL.JGS.1845.001.01.60|title=Description of a Fossil Ray from Mount Lebanon (''Cyclobatis oligodactylus'') |year=1845 |last1=Egerton |first1=Philip Grey |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=225–229 |s2cid=128842555 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2255207 }}</ref> The genus is typified by a circular form.<ref name=":0" /> The ray measures about 10 cm or 20 cm. In life the environment of this creature was a warm shallow sea. This fish had a very short tail, fitted with a venomous stinger.<ref name=":0" />
Two species are known. The shown, long-tailed ''Cyclobatis major'' and the short-tailed ''Cyclobatis oligodactylus''. ''Cyclobatis major'' can reach a length of about 25 cm, ''Cyclobatis oligodactylus'' around 15 cm
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Category:Cyclobatidae Category:Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera Category:Late Cretaceous cartilaginous fish Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia Category:Fossil taxa described in 1844
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