Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Full reference: G. R. Case. 1994. Fossil fish remains from the Late Paleocene Tuscahoma and Early Eocene Bashi Formations of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Part I. Selachians. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 230(Lfg. 4-6):97-138
Parent taxon: Myliobatidae according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019
See also Case 1994, Case et al. 2015 and Cicimurri 2010
Sister taxa: Aetobatinae, Apocopodon, Brachyrhizodus, Ceratopterina, Igdabatis, Leidybatis, Lophobatis, Mesobatis, Mobulinae, Myliobates, Myliobatina, Myliobatinae, Myliobatis, Pteromylaeus, Rhinopterinae
Subtaxa: Meridiania convexa
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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