{{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<ref name="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}}</ref> | type_species = †'''''Propristis schweinfurthi''''' | type_species_authority = Dames, 1883 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision = *†''Propristis mayumbensis'' <br/><small>Dartevelle & Casier, 1943</small><ref name="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}}</ref> | synonyms = {{collapsible list|title=Genus synonymy| *''Amblypristis'' <br/><small>Dames, 1888</small><ref name="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}}</ref> *''Eopristis'' <br/><small>Stromer, 1905</small><ref name="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}}</ref> *''Copristis'' <br/><small>Kinkelin, 1905 (''lapsus calami'')</small><ref name="Kinkelin 1905">{{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}}</ref> }} {{collapsible list|title=Species synonymy| {{collapsible list|title=''P. schweinfurthi''| * ''Amblypristis cheops'' <br/><small>Dames, 1888</small> * ''Eopristis reinachi'' <br/><small>Stromer, 1905</small> }} }} }}
'''''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,<ref name="Dames 1883"/><ref name="Dames 1888"/><ref name="Stromer 1905"/><ref name="Fraas 1907">{{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}}</ref> Cabinda,<ref name="Dartevelle & Casier 1943"/> Morocco,<ref name="Adnet et al. 2010">{{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 }}</ref> Qatar,<ref name="Casier 1971">{{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}}</ref> Spain,<ref name="Farrés & Fierstine 2009">{{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 }}</ref> the United Kingdom,<ref name="Kemp et al. 1990">{{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}}</ref> and the United States.<ref name="Dunkle 1951">{{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}}</ref> Isolated rostral denticles are the most common remains, but rostra have also been found.<ref name="Dames 1883"/><ref name="Stromer 1905"/><ref name="Fraas 1907"/><ref name="Farrés & Fierstine 2009"/>
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Category:Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera Category:Sawfish Category:Fossil taxa described in 1883