Pteroplatytrygon Fowler 1910 (whiptail stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Parent taxon: Dasyatinae according to P. R. Last et al. 2016

See also Jordan 1963

Sister taxa: Bathytoshia, Dasyatis, Hemitrygon, Hypanus, Taeniurops

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Paraguaná Peninsula, locality 1 (Miocene of Venezuela)

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