Pastinachus Rüppell 1828 (whiptail stingray)
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Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Synonyms: Hyplophus Muller and Henle 1837, Hypolophus Muller and Henle 1837
Parent taxon: Hypolophinae according to S. Adnet et al. 2018
See also Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Last et al. 2016, Thurmond 1971 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Pastinachus kebarensis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brunei Darussalam (1 collection), Libya (1)
• Oligocene of Angola (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (11), Tunisia (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Alabama, North Carolina)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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