Chondrichthyes - Sclerorhynchiformes
Parent taxon: Batomorphi according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Guinot et al. 2012, Kriwet et al. 2009 and Pereira and Medeiros 2008
Sister taxa: Archaeobatidae, Arthropteridae, Belemnobatidae, Enantiobatis, Myliobatiformes, Rajiformes, Rhinopristiformes, Spathobatidae, Torpediniformes
Subtaxa: Iberotrygon Ptychotrygonidae Sclerorhynchidae
Ecology: nektonic 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), Angola (4), Argentina (3), Austria (3), Belgium (5), Bolivia (5), Brazil (2), Canada (13: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Chile (11), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Czechia (1), Egypt (19), France (17), Germany (1), India (1), Israel (5), Italy (1), Japan (3), Jordan (7), Lebanon (4), Libya (1), Mali (2), Mexico (5), Morocco (18), the Netherlands (5), New Zealand (2), Niger (10), Nigeria (1), Peru (2), Senegal (1), Spain (7), Syria (8), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (154: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, 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: 352 collections including 612 occurrences