Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Alternative spellings: Aetiobatis, Aetobatis
Synonyms: Aetobates Richardson 1846, Goniobatis Agassiz 1858, Stoasodon Cantor 1850
Parent taxon: Aetobatidae according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2024
See also Andrews 1906, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1987, Case 1981, Casier 1946, Cassier 1966, Ebersole et al. 2019, Gill 1894, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Iturralde-Vinent et al. 1998, Jaekel 1894, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Owen 1859, Popov et al. 2024, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aetobatis marginalis Aetobatis profundus Aetobatis subarcuatus Aetobatis sulcatus Aetobatus aragonis Aetobatus arcuatus Aetobatus irregularis Aetobatus narinari Aetobatus omaliusi Aetobatus poeyi Stoasodon perspicuus
Type: Raja narinari
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (4: Alabama, Florida, Georgia collections)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Libya (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (6), Germany (1), India (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Sri Lanka (2), United States (13: Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Eocene of Egypt (6), Libya (2), the Russian Federation (5), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (13: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 120 collections including 131 occurrences
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