Texatrygon copei Cappetta and Case 1999 (ray)

Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1999. Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien). Palaeo Ichthyologica 9:5-111

Belongs to Texatrygon according to H. Cappetta and G. R. Case 1999

Sister taxa: Texatrygon hooveri, Texatrygon stouti

Type specimen: Its type locality is North Sulphur River at Ladonia (NSR), which is in a Campanian carbonate marl in the Taylor Marl Formation of Texas

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at North Sulphur River at Ladonia (NSR)

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