Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Full reference: J. W. Hoganson, J. M. Erickson, and F. D. Holland. 2019. Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan paleofaunas from the Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota, USA: paleoecology, paleogeography, and extinction. Bulletins of American Paleontology 398:1-94
Belongs to Dasyatis according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Dasyatis africana, Dasyatis borodini, Dasyatis branisai, Dasyatis carasuensis, Dasyatis carolinensis, Dasyatis cavernosa, Dasyatis charlisae, Dasyatis commercensis, Dasyatis concavifoveus, Dasyatis datasi, Dasyatis davisi, Dasyatis fallax, Dasyatis gigas, Dasyatis hastata, Dasyatis hexagonalis, Dasyatis jaekeli, Dasyatis manuelcamposi, Dasyatis margaritella, Dasyatis martini, Dasyatis molassicus, Dasyatis molinoensis, Dasyatis newegyptensis, Dasyatis pastinaca, Dasyatis ponsi, Dasyatis probsti, Dasyatis rafinesquei, Dasyatis rugosa, Dasyatis russelli, Dasyatis schaefferi, Dasyatis serralheiroi, Dasyatis sessaoensis, Dasyatis speetonensis, Dasyatis strangulata, Dasyatis sudrei, Dasyatis tetraedra, Dasyatis thierryi, Dasyatis tochtabusiensis, Dasyatis tricuspidatus, Dasyatis vicaryi, Dasyatis wochadunensis, Trygon muricatus, Trygon oblongus, Trygon sinhaleyus, Trygon rugosus, Trygon zignii, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon dux, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon vorstmani, Heliobatis radians
Type specimen: ND 94-38.20, a tooth. Its type locality is NDGS L35, Bowman County, which is in a Maastrichtian shoreface sandstone in the Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at NDGS L35, Bowman County
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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