Dasyatis sudrei Cappetta 1972 (whiptail stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1972. Les poissons crétacés et tertiaires du bassin des Iullemmeden (République du Niger). Palaeovertebrata 5:179-251

Belongs to Dasyatis according to G. Guinot et al. 2020

See also Cappetta 1972 and Cappetta 1987

Sister taxa: Dasyatis africana, Dasyatis americana, Dasyatis borodini, Dasyatis branisai, Dasyatis carolinensis, Dasyatis cavernosa, Dasyatis centroura, Dasyatis charlisae, Dasyatis concavifoveus, Dasyatis datasi, Dasyatis davisi, Dasyatis duponti, Dasyatis gigas, Dasyatis hastata, Dasyatis hexagonalis, Dasyatis jaekeli, Dasyatis margaritella, Dasyatis martini, Dasyatis molassicus, Dasyatis molinoensis, Dasyatis northdakotaensis, Dasyatis pastinaca, Dasyatis ponsi, Dasyatis probsti, Dasyatis rafinesquei, Dasyatis rugosa, Dasyatis russelli, Dasyatis schaefferi, Dasyatis serralheiroi, Dasyatis sessaoensis, Dasyatis speetonensis, Dasyatis strangulata, Dasyatis tetraedra, Dasyatis tricuspidatus, Dasyatis ujo, Dasyatis vicaryi, Dasyatis wochadunensis, Heliobatis radians, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon zignii, Trygon vorstmani, Trygon muricatus, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon oblongus, Trygon dux, Trygon rugosus, Trygon sinhaleyus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sessao, which is in a Thanetian marginal marine marl in Niger

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Morocco (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Niger (1), Togo (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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