# Cyclobatis

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes}}
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{{Taxobox
| fossil_range      = {{Fossil range|Upper Cretaceous}}
| image             = Cyclobatis major 1.JPG
| image_caption     = Fossil of ''Cyclobatis major''
| regnum            = [Animalia](/source/Animalia)
| phylum            = [Chordata](/source/Chordata)
| classis           = [Chondrichthyes](/source/Chondrichthyes)
| ordo              = [Rajiformes](/source/Rajiformes)
| familia           = †[Cyclobatidae](/source/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](/source/Hakel) and [Hjoula](/source/Hjoula) localities, including ''Cyclobatis'']]
'''''Cyclobatis''''' is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of [stingray](/source/stingray)-like [skate](/source/Skate_(fish)) from the Upper [Cretaceous](/source/Cretaceous) of what is now [Lebanon](/source/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&nbsp;cm or 20&nbsp;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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