Asflapristis

Asflapristis is an extinct genus of ptychotrygonid sclerorhynchoid that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains two valid species:^[3] A. cristadentis from the Akrabou Formation of Morocco^[1] and A. rugosa from the Eutaw Formation of Georgia^[2] and Mississippi^[4] and the Pleasant Creek Formation of North Carolina.^[5] Articulated skeletons of A. cristadentis show it had secondarily lost the rostral denticles typical of sclerorhynchoids,^[1] a process called "depristification".^[6]

Asflapristis Temporal range: Turonian-Santonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rajiformes
Suborder:	†Sclerorhynchoidei
Family:	†Ptychotrygonidae
Genus:	†Asflapristis Villalobos-Segura, Underwood, Ward, & Claeson, 2019[1]
Type species
†Asflapristis cristadentis Villalobos-Segura, Underwood, Ward, & Claeson, 2019
Other species
†Asflapristis rugosa (Case, Schwimmer, Borodin & Leggett, 2001)[2]
Synonyms
Species synonymy A. rugosa[3] Erguitaia rugosa Case, Schwimmer, Borodin & Leggett, 2001 Ptychotrygon rugosum (Case, Schwimmer, Borodin & Leggett, 2001)