Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Les selaciens du Cretace superieur du Liban. II: Batoides. Palaeontolographica Abt. A 168(5-6):149-229
Parent taxon: Rajiformes according to E. Villalobos-Segura et al. 2019
See also Cappetta 1980, Cappetta 1987, Guinot et al. 2012, Kriwet et al. 2009 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: Antiquaobatis, Archaeobatidae, Archingeayia, Cyclobatidae, Dynatobatis, Engolismaia, Erguitaia, Hamrabatis, Hexatrygon, Hypolophidae, Hypsobatidae, Kiestus, Myeladaphus, Oncobatis, Ostarriraja, Parapalaeobatidae, Plesiobatis, Pristoidei, Rajidae, Rajoidei, Rhina, Rhinobatoidei, Sechmetia, Spathobatidae, Squatirhina, Tanoutia, Tomewingia, Torpedinoidea, Urobatis, Urotrygon, Zanobatus, Iberotrygon
Subtaxa: Ptychotrygonidae Sclerorhynchidae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1)
• Paleocene of Morocco (1), United States (2: Montana, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (11), Argentina (2), Austria (3), Belgium (1), Bolivia (5), Brazil (1), Canada (10: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Chile (11), Egypt (14), France (10), India (1), Israel (5), Japan (3), Jordan (5), Lebanon (4), Libya (1), Mali (2), Mexico (4), Morocco (16), New Zealand (2), Niger (10), Nigeria (1), Peru (2), Spain (7), Syria (7), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (131: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (3)
Total: 285 collections including 489 occurrences