Rhinobatos echavei Cappetta and Corral 1999 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Rhinobatidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta and J. C. Corral. 1999. Upper Maastrichtian selachians from the Condado de Treviño (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula). Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava 14(núm.esp. 1):339-372

Belongs to Rhinobatos according to J. C. Corral et al. 2016

See also Cappetta and Corral 1999

Sister taxa: Rhinobatos auribatensis, Rhinobatos beurleni, Rhinobatos beurlini, Rhinobatos casieri, Rhinobatos craddocki, Rhinobatos hakelensis, Rhinobatos ibericus, Rhinobatos incertus, Rhinobatos incidens, Rhinobatos intermedius, Rhinobatos kiestensis, Rhinobatos ladoniaensis, Rhinobatos latus, Rhinobatos lobatus, Rhinobatos mariannae, Rhinobatos maronita, Rhinobatos obtusatus, Rhinobatos primarmatus, Rhinobatos productus, Rhinobatos rhinobatos, Rhinobatos sahnii, Rhinobatos seruensis, Rhinobatos tenuirostris, Rhinobatos uvulatus, Rhinobatos whitfieldi

Type specimen: MCNA 8272, a tooth. Its type locality is Albaina-Laño quarry, which is in a Maastrichtian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal grainstone in the Torme Formation of Spain.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (2 collections), Spain (2)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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