Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Mobulidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1976. Sélaciens nouveaux du London Clay de l'Essex (Yprésien du bassin de Londres). Geobios 9:551-575
Parent taxon: Mobulidae according to S. Adnet et al. 2012
See also Cappetta 1987, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amamriabatis, Archaeomanta, Argoubia, Brachioptilon, Eomanta, Eoplinthicus, Mobula, Oromobula, Plinthicus
Subtaxa: Burnhamia daviesi Burnhamia fetahi Burnhamia glikmani
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Eocene of Belgium (4), Egypt (19), France (8), Jordan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (4), the Russian Federation (2), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (8: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (2), Morocco (1), Togo (1)
Total: 79 collections including 84 occurrences
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