Dasyatis northdakotaensis Hoganson et al. 2019 (whiptail stingray)

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 americana, Dasyatis borodini, Dasyatis branisai, Dasyatis carolinensis, Dasyatis cavernosa, Dasyatis centroura, Dasyatis charlisae, Dasyatis concavifoveus, Dasyatis datasi, Dasyatis davisi, Dasyatis duponti, Dasyatis gigas, Dasyatis hastata, Dasyatis hexagonalis, Dasyatis jaekeli, Dasyatis margaritella, Dasyatis martini, Dasyatis molassicus, Dasyatis molinoensis, Dasyatis pastinaca, Dasyatis ponsi, Dasyatis probsti, Dasyatis rafinesquei, Dasyatis rugosa, Dasyatis russelli, Dasyatis say, Dasyatis schaefferi, Dasyatis serralheiroi, Dasyatis sessaoensis, Dasyatis speetonensis, Dasyatis strangulata, Dasyatis sudrei, Dasyatis tetraedra, Dasyatis tricuspidatus, Dasyatis ujo, Dasyatis vicaryi, Dasyatis wochadunensis, Heliobatis radians, Trygon muricatus, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon vorstmani, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon oblongus, Trygon rugosus, Trygon sinhaleyus, Trygon dux, Trygon zignii

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

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