Taeniurops Garman 1913 (whiptail stingray)
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Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Parent taxon: Dasyatinae according to P. R. Last et al. 2016
See also Adnet and Charpentier 2022, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Landau et al. 2025, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Bathytoshia, Dasyatis, Hemitrygon, Hypanus, Pteroplatytrygon
Subtaxa: Taeniurops cavernosa Taeniurops grabata Taeniurops tosii
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Miocene of Brunei Darussalam (1), France (1), Germany (1), Oman (1), Panama (3), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of United States (2: South Carolina)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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