Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Parent taxon: Mobulidae according to A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta 1997
See also Cappetta 1987, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amamriabatis, Archaeomanta, Brachioptilon, Eomobula, Eoplinthicus, Mobula, Paramobula, Plinthicus
Subtaxa: Burnhamia daviesi Burnhamia fetahi
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Eocene of Egypt (14), Jordan (1), Morocco (8), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (7), United States (9: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (1)
Total: 51 collections including 56 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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