Himantura Müller and Henle 1837 (whiptail stingray)
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Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Parent taxon: Urogymninae according to P. R. Last et al. 2016
See also Adnet et al. 2020 and Jordan 1963
Sister taxa: Protohimantura, Urogymnus
Subtaxa: Himantura souarfortuna
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (2 collections)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Brunei Darussalam (1), Madagascar (1)
• Oligocene of Oman (2), Pakistan (2)
• Eocene of Egypt (3), Tunisia (1), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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