Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to A. L. Cione et al. 2013
See also Bogan and Gallina 2011, Cappetta 1980, Cappetta 1987, Case et al. 2015, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Ebersole et al. 2019 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatidae, Dasyatoidea, Eomanta, Gymnuridae, Mobuloidea, Myliobatidae, Myliobatoidea, Myliobatoidei, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Rhinopteridae, Texabatis, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae
Subtaxa: Hypolophodon patagoniensis Hypolophodon sylvestris
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of India (1 collection)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Alabama, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), France (1), Morocco (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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