Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Mobulidae
Alternative spelling: Mobulinae
Parent taxon: Myliobatoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Purdy et al. 2001 and Tabuce et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Aetobatidae, Aturobatis, Dasyatidae, Gymnuridae, Hexatrygonidae, Myliobatidae, Plesiobatidae, Potamotrygonidae, Rhinopteridae, Rhombodontidae, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae, Zanobatidae
Subtaxa: Amamriabatis Archaeomanta Brachioptilon Burnhamia Eomobula Eoplinthicus Mobula Paramobula Plinthicus
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), India (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Poland (1), United States (8: New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of United States (5: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (22), Jordan (1), Morocco (12), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (4: Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (7), Togo (1)
Total: 100 collections including 155 occurrences