†Rhinoptera prisca Woodward 1907 (cownose ray)
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Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhinopteridae
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1907. Upper Cretaceous fish-remains from Brazil. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 5 4:193-197
Belongs to Rhinoptera according to A. S. Woodward 1907
See also Cappetta 1987
Sister taxa: Rhinoptera daviesii, Rhinoptera dubius, Rhinoptera maja, Rhinoptera marginata, Rhinoptera raeburni, Rhinoptera rasilis, Rhinoptera schultzi, Rhinoptera sherboni, Rhinoptera sherborni, Rhinoptera smithi, Rhinoptera studeri, Rhinoptera woodwardi
Type specimen: Its type locality is - Nautiloidea, which is in a Cretaceous marine horizon in Brazil
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at - Nautiloidea
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