Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Gymnuridae
Synonyms: Aetoplatea Vallencienes 1841, Pteroplatea Muller and Henle 1837
Parent taxon: Gymnuridae according to C. J. Underwood and J. Schlogl 2013
See also Cappetta 1984, Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, David 1943, Jaekel 1894, Jordan 1963, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Werner 1989
Sister taxa: Jacquhermania, Ouledia, Pachygymnura, Subathunura, Urogymninae
Subtaxa: Gymnura altavela Gymnura delpiti Gymnura grootaerti Gymnura hovestadti Gymnura laterialata Gymnura micura Pteroplatea lapislutosa
Type: Raja micura
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• MN 13 of Portugal (2 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Egypt (6), Jordan (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Alabama), Western Sahara (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Morocco (4)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (1)
Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence
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