Hemipristis serra Agassiz, 1843
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Hemipristis serra Agassiz, 1843 |
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Hemipristis serra Agassiz, 1843
Tooth type: Cutting-clutching.
The only recent congener is H. elongata (Klunzinger, 1871) , which feeds on bony fishes and cephalopods and has a TL of 4.3 (Cortés, 1999). It lives on continental and insular shelves down to 132 m depth (Ebert et al., 2021). However, the Miocene Hemipristis serra had larger teeth than extant H. elongata , which may suggest different prey items and, maybe, a slightly higher TL for the extinct species.
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