Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes
Parent taxon: Batomorphi according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Cantalice et al. 2019, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Ebersole et al. 2019, Maisch IV et al. 2025 and Rana et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Archaeobatidae, Arthropteridae, Belemnobatidae, Enantiobatis, Myliobatiformes, Rajiformes, Sclerorhynchiformes, Spathobatidae, Torpediniformes
Subtaxa: Atlantobatis Glaucopristis Glaucostegidae Microbatis Pristidae Rhinidae Rhinobatidae Rhynchobatidae Sowibatos Tlalocbatos Trygonorrhinidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (4: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Italy (4), Libya (1), South Africa (1), Spain (8), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Australia (3), Austria (2), Brazil (1), Brunei Darussalam (1), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Czechia (1), Egypt (2), France (12), Germany (1), India (5), Japan (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (4), Peru (7), Portugal (12), Spain (2), United States (12: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (18)
• Oligocene of Angola (3), Oman (3), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), United States (6: California, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene to Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Eocene of Angola (5), Antarctica (2), Australia (1), Belgium (7), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (38), France (11), India (6), Italy (4), Jordan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (3), Morocco (2), Namibia (1), the Netherlands (10), Nigeria (4), Peru (1), Qatar (2), Romania (1), Senegal (3), Spain (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (12), United States (34: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (4)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleogene of Libya (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (3), Morocco (3), Niger (1), Sweden (1), Togo (2), United States (4: Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina)
• Tertiary of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (3), Argentina (9), Belgium (5), Brazil (1), Canada (82: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Egypt (6), France (24), Germany (2), Israel (2), Italy (1), Jordan (5), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (8), Mexico (4), Morocco (5), the Netherlands (2), Niger (2), Nigeria (1), Spain (7), Sweden (5), Syria (5), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (205: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (2)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), Germany (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), Uruguay (1)
Total: 720 collections including 972 occurrences