Pseudaetobatus belli Cicimurri and Ebersole 2015 (eagle ray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

Full reference: D. J. Cicimurri and J. A. Ebersole. 2015. Two new species of Pseudaetobatus Cappetta, 1986 (Batoidei: Myliobatidae) from the southeastern United States. Palaeontologia Electronica 18(1.15A):1-17

Belongs to Pseudaetobatus according to D. J. Cicimurri and J. A. Ebersole 2015

See also Ebersole et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Pseudaetobatus casieri, Pseudaetobatus undulatus

Type specimen: MSC 35048, a tooth. Its type locality is ADl-1, Dale County (NP13), which is in a Ypresian coastal siliciclastic in the Tallahatta Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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