Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Parent taxon: Myliobatidae according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Cantalice et al. 2025, Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri et al. 2025, De Pasqua et al. 2025, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2021, Iturralde-Vinent et al. 1998, Jordan 1963, Maisch et al. 2014, Popov et al. 2025, Rana et al. 2021, Sepkoski 2002 and Szabo et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Aetobatinae, Aktaua, Amtaaguar, Apocopodon, Brachyrhizodus, Ceratopterina, Garabatis, Hypolophites, Igdabatis, Leidybatis, Lophobatis, Meridiania, Mesobatis, Myliobates, Myliobatina, Myliobatinae, Myliobatis, Palaeomyliobatis, Palaeomyliobatis pirabensis, Pseudaetobatus, Pteromylaeus, Rhizochlatrus, Rhizochlatrus vidalis
Subtaxa: Aetomylaeus cojimarensis Aetomylaeus cubensis Aetomylaeus dixoni Aetomylaeus maculatus Aetomylaeus striatus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (2), Brunei Darussalam (1), Chile (1), Cuba (2), Hungary (1), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene of Germany (2), United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Angola (6), Belgium (3), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Germany (1), India (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Senegal (1), Spain (2), Togo (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (18: Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Angola (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Angola (9), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), France (8), Saudi Arabia (10), Togo (3), 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: 114 collections including 136 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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