Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
See also Adegoke 1977, Ameghino 1901, Andrews 1906, Buchanan et al. 2007, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1986, Cappetta 1987, Carnevale et al. 2014, Case 1979, Case 1981, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Herman 1977, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kriwet et al. 2007, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Leriche 1942, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Silva et al. 2002, Szabo et al. 2017, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2006, Woodward 1889 and Woodward 1916
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Aetobatidae, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatidae, Dasyatoidea, Eomanta, Gymnuridae, Hypolophodon, Mobuloidea, Myliobatoidea, Myliobatoidei, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Texabatis, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae
Subtaxa: Aetobatinae Apocopodon Brachyrhizodus Ceratopterina Igdabatis Leidybatis Lophobatis Meridiania Mesobatis Mobulinae Myliobates Myliobatina Myliobatinae Myliobatis Pteromylaeus Rhinopterinae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Brazil (1), Ecuador (1), France (1), South Africa (1), United States (17: California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (5: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2), Ecuador (1), Panama (1), South Africa (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Austria (6), Belgium (2), Brazil (5), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (4), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (3), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (9), Italy (1), Japan (6), Madagascar (1), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (16), Peru (11), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Sri Lanka (2), United States (29: California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (7)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), France (1), Germany (3), Japan (2), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (5), Peru (3), United States (7: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Australia (2), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (2), Egypt (32), France (2), Germany (1), India (8), Italy (1), Jordan (2), Libya (2), Morocco (14), Namibia (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (6), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (2), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (45: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Denmark (1), India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Brazil (1), Morocco (7), New Zealand (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Saudi Arabia (10), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), United States (9: Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Tertiary of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), Egypt (1), India (13), Madagascar (1), Mali (1), Niger (4), Spain (3), United States (28: Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 468 collections including 826 occurrences