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Sarcoprion (from the
Ancient Gr****, "flesh saw") is an
extinct genus of
eugeneodont holocephalan from the
Permian of Greenland.
Similar to
other helicoprionids...
- ("those
which devour"), the
former containing the
genera Helicoprion,
Sarcoprion, and Parahelicoprion, and the
latter containing the
genera Edestus, Lestrodus...
- Kazakhstan. They are
broadly similar to
scales of
other eugeneodonts such as
Sarcoprion and Ornithoprion. The
scales have a cap-shaped base with a
concave lower...
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which the
palatoquadrates are
large and specialized, and
potentially from
Sarcoprion,
which may have had them
fused to the
cranium or lost entirely. The palatoquadrate...
- Worthen, 1866 †Sandalodus cr****us
Newberry & Worthen, 1866 †
Sarcoprion Nielsen, 1952 †
Sarcoprion edax Nielsen, 1952 †Sarisubcorona Johns, 1997 †Sarisubcorona...
- itself. This
structure may have been
absent in life as is
proposed in
Sarcoprion, or it may
simply be
unpreserved as a
result of the
genus possessing a...
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Toxoprion Sarcoprion...
- (such as
those of the
namesake genus Helicoprion),
while others such as
Sarcoprion and
Parahelicoprion possessed shorter whorls. Lebedev, O. A. (2009). "A...
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partial skull of
Sarcoprion edax and the well-preserved
fossils of the
related caseodonts.
Various other authors have
agreed with a
Sarcoprion-like interpretation...
