Hemipristis serra Agassiz, 1843

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 34

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.