{{Short description|Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | fossil_range = Upper Cretaceous | image = Rajorhina expansa.JPG | image_alt = A fossil of the Rajorhina expansa. It's set into stone. It has a kite-like shape, having a square body and tail behind it. | image_caption = ''Rajorhina expansa'' | taxon = Rajhorina | authority = Jaekel, 1894<ref name="Jaekel 1894 93">{{Cite book|last=Jaekel|first=Otto|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35010|title=Die eocänen Selachier vom Monte Bolca : ein Beitrag zur Morphogenie der Wirbelthiere|date=1894|publisher=J. Springer|location=Berlin|pages=93|language=German|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.8458|oclc=5472176|access-date=2021-07-03|archive-date=2021-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117194405/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35010|url-status=live}}</ref> }}
'''''Rajorhina''''' is an extinct genus<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Rajorhina|url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P34707.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-03|website=mindat.org|publisher=Hudson Institute of Mineralogy|archive-date=2021-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703070620/https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P34707.html}}</ref> of stingray-like skate from the Upper Cretaceous of what is now Lebanon.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-14|title=Kipping-Fossils|url=http://catalog.kipping-fossils.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1292|access-date=2021-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190027/http://catalog.kipping-fossils.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1292|archive-date=2014-07-14}}</ref><ref name="Jaekel 1894 93">{{Cite book|last=Jaekel|first=Otto|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35010|title=Die eocänen Selachier vom Monte Bolca : ein Beitrag zur Morphogenie der Wirbelthiere|date=1894|publisher=J. Springer|location=Berlin|pages=93|language=German|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.8458|oclc=5472176|access-date=2021-07-03|archive-date=2021-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117194405/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35010|url-status=live}}</ref> It is the only known fossil-only genus of the family Rajidae<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Nelson|first1=Joseph S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLDDCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Rajorhina%22%20-wikipedia&pg=PA85|title=Fishes of the World|last2=Grande|first2=Terry C.|last3=Wilson|first3=Mark V. H.|date=2016-03-16|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-119-22081-7|pages=85|language=en|access-date=2021-07-03|archive-date=2021-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703070707/https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Fishes_of_the_World/kLDDCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Rajorhina%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA85&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22Rajorhina%22+-wikipedia|url-status=live}}</ref> The genus is typified by a Rhombus form.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}
From its taxonomy a few things have been inferred about it. It likely lived in a marine environment and it was phosphatic based on its subphylum.<ref name=":0" /> It was actively mobile and a carnivore.<ref name=":0" />
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==External links== * [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Rajorhina-expansa-Davis-1887-from-the-Late-Cretaceous-Cenomanian-of-Haqel-Lebanon_fig7_328602609 Images] of Rajorhina expansa {{Taxonbar|from=Q18393292}}
Category:Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera Category:Late Cretaceous cartilaginous fish Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia
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