Family Potamotrygonidae Garman 1877 (stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Potamotrygonidae

Parent taxon: Myliobatoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Jordan 1963, Lundberg 1997 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Aetobatidae, Aturobatis, Dasyatidae, Gymnuridae, Hexatrygonidae, Mobulidae, Myliobatidae, Plesiobatidae, Rhinopteridae, Rhombodontidae, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae, Zanobatidae

Subtaxa: Potamotrygoninae

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Type: Potamotrygon

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Venezuela (1 collection)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (2), Peru (9)

• Oligocene of Peru (4)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)

• Eocene of Peru (1)

Total: 20 collections including 26 occurrences

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