Below is a preliminary list of literature on sclerorhynchids worldwide. We have made an effort to include both scientific and popular articles and books. Although an effort was made to search the literature, this list is not complete as some articles are difficult to obtain such as those published in obscure journals. If you notice anything important missing, please notify us via e‑mail using the button at the bottom of the page. Special thanks go to Earl Manning for supplying several key references.
SCLERORHYNCHID LITERATURE
Adnet, S., H. Cappetta, and R. Tabuce. 2010. A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications. Geological Magazine 147(6)860–870.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7908842&fileId=S0016756810000348
Amalfitano, J., L. Giusberti, F. M. D. Vecchia, and J. Kriwet. 2017. First skeletal remains of the giant sawfish Onchosaurus (Neoselachii, Sclerorhynchiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of northeastern Italy. Cretaceous Research 69:124–135. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667116302154 [documents only known skeletal remains of O. pharao]
Arambourg, C. 1940. Le groupe des Ganopristinés. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 10(5):127–147. [includes description of Ctenopristis nougareti]
Arambourg, C. 1940. The Group of the Ganopristines [translated from French to English by R. W. Purdy, July-August 1998]. The Polyglot Paleontologist [accessed 17 Nov. 1998 from http://www.paleoglot.org/]. [includes description of Ctenopristis nougareti]
Becker, M. A., Chamberlain, J. A. and Brady, D. 2005. Rostral morphology of the late Cretaceous sawfish, Ischyrhiza mira, from the lower Navesink Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Monmouth County, New Jersey. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science 27:37–48.
Cappetta, H. 1987. Chondrichthyes II, Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.
Cappetta, H. and J.C. Corral. 1999. Upper Maastrichtian selachians from the Condado de Triviño (Basque-Cantabrian region, Iberian Peninsula). Est. Mus. Cienc. Nat. de Alava 14(1):339–372.
Case. G. R. 1967. Fossil Shark and Fish Remains of North America. Self-published, Grafco Press, New York, NY.
Case, G. R. 1965. An occurrence of the sawfish, Onchopristis dunklei in the upper Cretaceous of Minnesota. Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science 32(3):183.
Case, G. R. 1973. Fossil Sharks: a Pictorial Review. Pioneer Litho Co., Inc., New York, NY.
Case, G. R. 1982. A Pictorial Guide to Fossils. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, NY.
Case, G. R. 1987. Borodinopristis schwimmeri, a new ganopristine sawfish from the upper Blufftown Formation (Campanian) of the upper Cretaceous of Georgia. Bulletin of the New Jersey Academy of Science 32(1):25–33.
Case, G. R. and H. Cappetta. 1997. A new selachian fauna from the late Maastrichtian of Texas (upper Cretaceous/Navarro Group; Kemp Formation). Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, (A) 34:131–189. [description of Tomewingia problematica, which may be a sclerorhynchid]
Case, G. R. and H. Cappetta. 2013. Ewingia Case & Cappetta, 1997 (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes), preoccupied by Ewingia Pearse, 1929 (Insecta: Arachnida). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 268(1):125–126. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2013/00000268/00000001/art00004?token=005c1e4a77000a0ff3bd5d7e2a46762c6b79217d703f705c3a2b467c673f7b2f267738703375686f491ed479980d
Case, G. R., T. D. Cook, M. V. H. Wilson, and P. D. Borodin. 2012. A new species of the sclerorhynchid sawfish Borodinopristis from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of North Carolina, USA. Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology 24(6):592–597. [description of Borodinopristis shannoni] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08912963.2012.663367
Case, G. R. and D. R. Schwimmer. 1988. Late Cretaceous fish from the Blufftown Formation (Companian) in western Georgia. Journal of Paleonology 62(2):290–301. PDF File
Ciampagalio, C.N., D.J. Cicimurri, J.A. Ebersole, and K.E. Runyon. 2013. A note on Late Cretaceous fish taxa recovered from stream gravels at Site AGr-43 in Greene County, Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History No. 31, Vol. 1:84–97.
Cicimurri, C.N. Ciampaglio, and K.E. Runyon. 2014. Late Cretaceous elasmobranchs from the Eutaw Formation at Luxapalila Creek, Lowndes County, Mississippi. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(2):1–36. http://www.palarch.nl/wp-content/Cicimurri-et-al-2014-PJVP-11-2.pdf
Chandler, R. and P. Young. 2015. Fossil Fish, Volume III of IV. North Carolina Fossil Club, Raleigh, NC. http://www.ncfossilclub.org/node/8
Corral, J.C., N. Bardet, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and H. Cappetta, H. 2012. First occurrence of the sawfish Onchosaurus from the late Cretaceous of Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(1):212–218.
Dames, H. 1887. Titanichthys pharaoh nov. gen. nov. sp. aus der Kreide Formation Aegyptens. Separate-Abdruck aus den Sitzungs-Berichten der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 5:69–78. [description of Onchosaurus pharaoh]
Darteville, E. and E. Casier. 1959. Les Poissons Fossiles du Bas-Congo et des Regions Voisines. Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Series A (Mineralogie Geologie, Paleontologie) 3,2(3):257–568 + plates 23–39. PDF
de Renzi, M., E. Manzanares, M. D. Marin-Monfort, and H. Botella. 2016. Comments on "Dental lessons from past to present: ultrastructure and composition of teeth from plesiosaurs, dinosaurs, extinct and recent sharks" by A. Lubke, J. Enax, K. Loza, O. Prymak, P. Gaengler, H.-O. Fabritius, D. Raabe and M. Epple, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 61612. RSC Advances 6(78):74384−74388. Link to Abstract
Dunkle, D. H. 1948. On two previously unreported selachians from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 38(5):173–176. http://biostor.org/reference/134084
Dunkle, D. H. 1951. New Western Hemisphere occurrences of fossil selachians. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 41(11):344–347.
Greenfield, T. 2023. Pristification: Defining the convergent evolution of saws in sharks and rays (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii). PaleorXiv https://paleorxiv.org/rtw9u/
Kaddumi, H. F. 2009. A new genus and species of sawfishes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea) from the late Maastrichtian sediments of Harrana. In: Fossils of the Harrana Fauna and the Adjacent Areas. Publications of the Eternal River Museum of Natural History, Amman:178–187.
Kirkland, J. I., M. C. Aguillón-Martinez. 2002. Schizorhiza: a unique sawfish paradigm from the Difunta Group, Coahuila, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 19(1):16–24.
Kriwet, J. and S. Klug. 2012. Presence of the extinct sawfish Onchosaurus (Neoselachii, Sclerorhynchiformes) in the Late Cretaceous of Peru with a review of the genus. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 39:52–58. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981112000739
Kriwet, J. and K. Kussius. 2001. Paleobiology and paleobiogeography of sclerorhynchid sawfishes (Chondrichthyes, Batomorphii). Revista Espanola de Paleontologia No. extraordinario: 35–46.
Lehman, T. M. 1989. Giant Cretaceous sawfish (Onchosaurus) from Texas. Journal of Paleontology 63(4):533–535. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1305446?sid=21104955073521&uid=4&uid=3739256&uid=3739600&uid=2
Liedy, J. 1860. Description of vertebrate fossils. Pp. 99–122. In: F. S. Holmes (ed.), Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina. Russell & Jones, Charleston, SC.
Manning, E. M., 2006. Late Campanian Vertebrate Fauna of the Frankstown Site, Prentiss County, Mississippi: Systematics, Paleoecology, Taphonomy, Sequence Stratigraphy [dissertation]. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
Manning, E. M. and M. B. E. Bograd. 2000. Annotated bibliography of the geology of Mississippi to 1850: Mississippi Geology 20(4):49−72.
Manning, E. M. and D. T. Dockery III. 1992. A guide to the Frankstown Vertebrate Fossil Locality (Upper Cretaceous), Prentiss County, Mississippi. Mississippi Office of Geology, Circular no. 4, Jackson, MS.
Martill, D. M. and N. Ibrahim. 2012. Aberrant rostral teeth of the sawfish Onchopristis numidus from the Kem Kem beds (?early Late Cretaceous) of Morocco and a reappraisal of Onchopristis in New Zealand. Journal of African Earth Sciences 64:71–76. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X11002172
McNulty, C. L., Jr. and B. H. Slaughter. 1962. A new sawfish from the Woodbine Formation (Cretaceous) of Texas. Copeia 4:775–777. [description of Onchopristis dunklei]
McNulty, C. L., Jr. and B. H. Slaughter. 1964. Rostral teeth of Ischyrhiza mira Leidy from northeast Texas. Texas Journal of Science 16:107–112.
Mustafa, H.A., G.R. Case, and I. Zalmout. 2002. A new selachian fauna from the Wadi Umm Ghudran Formation (Late Cretaceous) - Central Jordan. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen 226(3):419–444. Link to Abstract
Neraudeau, D., S. Saint Martin, D. J. Batten, J.-P. Colin, V. Daviero-Gomez, V. Girard, B. Gomez, Y. A. Nohra, F. Polette, J.-P. Platel, J.-P. Saint Martin, and R. Vullo. 2016. Palaeontology of the upper Turonian paralic deposits of the Sainte-Mondane Formation, Aquitaine basin, France. Geologica Acta 14(1):53–69. http://www.geologica-acta.com/pdf/vol1401a05.pdf
Parmley, D., D. J. Cicimurri, and B. Campbell. 2003. Late Eocene sharks of the Hardie Mine local fauna of Wilkinson County, Georgia. Georgia Journal of Science 61(3):153–179. http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~jaliff/GA%20Sci%2061-3.pdf
Pereira, A. A. and M. A. Medeiros. 2008. A new sclerorhynchiform (Elasmobranchii) from the middle Cretaceous of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 11(3):207–212.
Schaeffer, B. 1963. Cretaceous fishes from Bolivia, with comments on pristid evolution. American Museum Novitates (2159):1–20. PDF
Slaughter, B. H. and M. Steiner. 1968. Notes on rostral teeth of ganopristine sawfishes, with special reference to Texas material. Journal of Paleontology 42(1):233–239.
Smith, M. M., A. Riley, G. J. Fraser, C. Underwood, M. Welten, J. Kriwet, C. Pfaff, and Z. Johanson. 2015. Early development of rostrum saw-teeth in a fossil ray tests classical theories of the evolution of vertebrate dentitions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20151628.http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1628. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1816/20151628
Sternes, P.C. and K. Shimada. 2018. Paleobiology of the Late Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfish, Ischyrhiza mira (Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes), from North America based on new anatomical data. Historical Biology DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1452205. Link to Abstract [seven associated sets of I. mira remains are described including Peyeria-like dermal denticles; insightful discussion on biology and life history of sclerorhynchids]
Thurmond, J. T. and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama. The University of Alabama Press, University, AL.
Underwood, C., M. M. Smith, and Z. Johanson. 2015. Sclerorhynchus atavus and the convergent evolution of rostrum-bearing chondrichthyans. Pp. 129–136. In: Johanson Z. Barrett, P. M., Richter, M., and Smith, M. (eds) Arthur Smith Woodward: His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Palaeontology. Geological Society London Special Publication 430. http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/13176/
Villalobos-Segura, E., G. Marrama, G. Carnevale, K.M. Claeson, C.J. Underwood, G.J.P. Naylor, and J. Kriwet. 2022. The phylogeny of rays and skates (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) based on morphological characters revisited. Diversity 14(456):1–65. Link to PDF
Villalobos-Segura, E., C.J. Underwood, and D.J. Ward. 2019. The first skeletal record of the enigmatic Cretaceous sawfish genus Ptychotrygon (chondrichthyes, batoidea) from the Turonian of Morocco. Papers in Palaeontology 2019:1–24. Link to Abstract
[Ptychotrygon rostrispatula sp. nov. is described from five partial skeletons]
Villalobos-Segura, E., C.J. Underwood, D.J. Ward, and K.M. Claeson. 2019. The first three-dimensional fossils of Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfish: Asflapristis cristadentis gen. et sp. nov., and implications for the phylogentic relations of the Sclerorhynchoidei (Condrichthyes). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2019:1–23. Link to Abstract
[This new genus and species is described from six fossil specimens from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco. The species is characterized by a relatively robust rostrum apparently devoid of rostral denticles. The jaws are relatively large and have ridged teeth that lack cusps and are reminiscent of dasyatid teeth. The material described here suggests a total length of approx. 2 m]
Welton, B. J. and R. F. Farish. 1993. The Collector’s Guide to Fossil Sharks and Rays from the Cretaceous of Texas. Self-published.
Welton, M., M. M. Smith, C. Underwood, and Z. Johanson. 2015. Evolutionary origins and development of saw-teeth on the sawfish and sawshark rostrum (elasmobranchii; chondrichthyes). Royal Society Open Science 2:150189. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/2/9/150189.full.pdf
White, E. I. and J. A. Moy-Thomas. 1940. Notes on the nomenclature of fossil fishes, Part 3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5(11):395–400.
Wueringer, B.E., L. Squire, Jr., and S. P. Collin. 2009. The biology of extinct and extant sawfish (Batoidea: Sclerorhynchidae and Pristidae). Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 19:445–464.