Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Parent taxon: Myliobatidae according to E. V. Popov et al. 2024
See also Cappetta 1987, Ebersole et al. 2019, Iturralde-Vinent et al. 1998, Jordan 1963, Maisch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Szabo et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Aetobatinae, Apocopodon, Brachyrhizodus, Ceratopterina, Igdabatis, Leidybatis, Lophobatis, Meridiania, Mesobatis, Mobulinae, Myliobates, Myliobatina, Myliobatinae, Myliobatis, Pteromylaeus
Subtaxa: Aetomylaeus cojimarensis Aetomylaeus cubensis Aetomylaeus dixoni Aetomylaeus maculatus Aetomylaeus striatus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Cuba (2), Hungary (1), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Senegal (1), Togo (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (17: Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Brazil (1), Saudi Arabia (10), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), United States (8: Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Tertiary of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 64 collections including 80 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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