Subfamily Dasyatinae Jordan and Gilbert 1879 (whiptail stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Parent taxon: Dasyatidae according to P. R. Last et al. 2016

See also Adnet and Charpentier 2022

Sister taxa: Agabelus, Amphotistius, Anacanthus, Dasyatis dezignoi, Disceus, Discobatis, Discotrygon, Elipesurus, Glikmania, Hemiptychodus, Hypolophinae, Neotrygoninae, Palaeodasyatis, Paratrygon, Pastinaca, Rhachinotus, Sporetodus, Tethytrygon, Trygonobatus, Urogymninae, Uroxis, Viperecucullus

Subtaxa: Bathytoshia Dasyatis Hemitrygon Hypanus Pteroplatytrygon Taeniurops

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Type: Dasyatis

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Kenya (16), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (10: California, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)

• Pliocene of Italy (2), Libya (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (4), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Brunei Darussalam (1), Chile (1), Costa Rica (2), Czechia (2), France (4), Germany (3), India (3), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Sri Lanka (2), United States (13: California, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (3), Pakistan (2), United States (4: Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Belgium (3), Egypt (2), France (17), India (8), Italy (2), Jordan (2), Morocco (4), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (9), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), Senegal (3), Togo (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (11), United States (18: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (15), Niger (1), Togo (1), United States (7: Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), Bolivia (3), France (1), India (4), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Arkansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas)

Total: 251 collections including 339 occurrences

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