Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Full reference: G. R. Case. 1981. Late Eocene Selachians from South-Central Georgia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 176(Lfg. 1-3):52-79
Belongs to Dasyatis according to H. Cappetta and G. R. Case 2016
See also Case 1981 and Ebersole et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Dasyatis africana, Dasyatis borodini, Dasyatis branisai, Dasyatis carasuensis, Dasyatis carolinensis, Dasyatis cavernosa, Dasyatis commercensis, Dasyatis concavifoveus, Dasyatis datasi, Dasyatis davisi, Dasyatis fallax, Dasyatis gigas, Dasyatis hastata, Dasyatis hexagonalis, Dasyatis jaekeli, Dasyatis manuelcamposi, Dasyatis margaritella, Dasyatis martini, Dasyatis molassicus, Dasyatis molinoensis, Dasyatis newegyptensis, 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 sudrei, Dasyatis tetraedra, Dasyatis thierryi, Dasyatis tochtabusiensis, Dasyatis tricuspidatus, Dasyatis vicaryi, Dasyatis wochadunensis, Trygon muricatus, Trygon oblongus, Trygon sinhaleyus, Trygon rugosus, Trygon zignii, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon dux, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon vorstmani, Heliobatis radians
Type specimen: USNM 23563, a tooth. Its type locality is Huber Kaolin Quarry, which is in an Eocene marine claystone in the Jacksonian Formation of Georgia.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (1 collection), United States (5: Alabama, Georgia)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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