Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Mobulidae
Full reference: J. Herman. 1979. Additions to the Eocene fish fauna of Belgium; 4, Archaeomanta, a new genus from the Belgian and and North African Palaeogene. Tertiary Research 2(2):61-67
Parent taxon: Mobulidae according to A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta 1997
See also Adnet et al. 2020, Cappetta 1987, Herman 1979 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amamriabatis, Brachioptilon, Burnhamia, Eomobula, Eoplinthicus, Mobula, Paramobula, Plinthicus
Subtaxa: Archaeomanta melenhorsti Archaeomanta priemi
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Egypt (5 collections), Jordan (1), Morocco (9), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Mississippi, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (7), Togo (1)
Total: 36 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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