Myliobatis holmesii Gibbes 1849 (eagle ray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

Alternative combination: Myliobates holmesii

Full reference: R. W. Gibbes. 1849. New species of fossil Myliobates, from the Eocene of South Carolina, and new fossils from the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Pliocene of South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1:193-194

Belongs to Myliobatis according to M. Leriche 1942

See also Gibbes 1849 and Hay 1902

Sister taxa: Myliobatis affinis, Myliobatis altus, Myliobatis aquila, Myliobatis arcuatus, Myliobatis bisulcus, Myliobatis bothriodon, Myliobatis crassus, Myliobatis dimorphus, Myliobatis fastigiatus, Myliobatis faujasi, Myliobatis foxhillsensis, Myliobatis frangens, Myliobatis funiculatus, Myliobatis gigas, Myliobatis girondicus, Myliobatis intermedius, Myliobatis kummeli, Myliobatis latidens, Myliobatis leognanensis, Myliobatis magister, Myliobatis merriami, Myliobatis microrhizus, Myliobatis monnieri, Myliobatis moorabbinensis, Myliobatis mordax, Myliobatis nzadinensis, Myliobatis oligocaena, Myliobatis pachyodon, Myliobatis pachyrhizodus, Myliobatis plicatilis, Myliobatis prenticei, Myliobatis raouxi, Myliobatis sulcidens, Myliobatis tennicaudatus, Myliobatis toliapicus, Myliobatis vicomicanus, Myliobatis wurnoensis

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Myliobatis holmesii in the database

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