Myliobatis Cuvier 1816 (eagle ray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

Alternative spellings: Myliobates, Myliobatus

Synonyms: Holorhinus Gill 1862, Palaeomyliobatis Silva et al. 1960, Rhizochlatrus Silva et al. 1960

Parent taxon: Myliobatidae according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019

See also Adegoke 1977, Alessandri 1896, Ameghino 1901, Arambourg 1927, Arambourg and Joleaud 1943, Bohm 1926, Cappetta 1986, Cappetta 1987, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1981, Case et al. 2015, Casier 1946, Cassier 1966, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Davis 1888, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2019, Gill 1894, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Herman 1977, Iturralde-Vinent et al. 1998, Jaekel 1894, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Lancaster 1986, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Mane et al. 2003, Otero et al. 2013, Rana et al. 2006, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Silva et al. 2002, Szabo et al. 2017, Tabaste 1963, Tabuce et al. 2005, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Villafaña et al. 2020, White 1926 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: Aetobatinae, Apocopodon, Brachyrhizodus, Ceratopterina, Igdabatis, Leidybatis, Lophobatis, Meridiania, Mesobatis, Mobulinae, Myliobates, Myliobatina, Myliobatinae, Pteromylaeus, Rhinopterinae

Subtaxa: Myliobatis affinis Myliobatis altus Myliobatis aquila Myliobatis arcuatus Myliobatis bisulcus Myliobatis bothriodon Myliobatis crassus Myliobatis dimorphus Myliobatis fastigiatus Myliobatis faujasi Myliobatis foxhillsensis Myliobatis frangens Myliobatis funiculatus Myliobatis gigas Myliobatis girondicus Myliobatis holmesii Myliobatis intermedius Myliobatis kummeli Myliobatis latidens Myliobatis leognanensis Myliobatis magister Myliobatis merriami Myliobatis microrhizus Myliobatis monnieri Myliobatis moorabbinensis Myliobatis mordax Myliobatis nzadinensis Myliobatis oligocaena Myliobatis pachyodon Myliobatis pachyrhizodus Myliobatis plicatilis Myliobatis prenticei Myliobatis raouxi Myliobatis sulcidens Myliobatis tennicaudatus Myliobatis toliapicus Myliobatis vicomicanus Myliobatis wurnoensis

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Type: Raja aquila

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Brazil (1), Ecuador (1), France (1), South Africa (1), United States (14: California, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Italy (2), Libya (1), Mexico (1), Spain (1), United States (3: California, Florida)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2), Panama (1), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Brazil (3), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (7), Italy (1), Japan (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (6), Peru (9), Poland (2), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Sri Lanka (2), United States (21: California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (5), Peru (3), United States (3: California, Florida, North Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Australia (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Egypt (20), France (2), India (8), Italy (1), Jordan (1), Libya (2), Morocco (3), Niger (1), Nigeria (6), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (11), United States (32: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)

• Paleocene of Morocco (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Togo (1), United States (4: Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina)

• Cenozoic of New Zealand (1)

• Cretaceous of Mali (1), Niger (2), United States (5: Maryland, North Dakota, Texas)

Total: 275 collections including 312 occurrences

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