Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Full reference: A. S. Romer. 1942. Notes on certain American Paleozoic Fishes. American Journal of Science 240(3):216-228
Belongs to Brachyrhizodus according to G. R. Case et al. 2019
See also Adnet et al. 2012, Antunes and Cappetta 2002, Cappetta 1987, Cappetta and Case 1975, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Manning and Dockery 1992, Romer 1942 and Schubert et al. 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MCZ 7197, a tooth. Its type locality is Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis type locality, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine horizon in Texas.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), United States (22: Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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