Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Full reference: J. A. Villafaña, J. Campos‐Medina, M. F. Chávez‐Hoffmeister, S. Araya, B. Araya, L. Ledezma, Y. Hernandez, H. A. Ramos‐Rojas, J. Bolomey, M. Tejo, F. Vera, A. N. Campoy, R. Arotaipe, Y. Bugueño, B. Antiquera and M. M. Rivadeneira. 2025. Diving into the past: a new assemblage of Neogene elasmobranch microfossils from the eastern Pacific of South America. Papers in Palaeontology 11(e70043)

Belongs to Dasyatis according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Dasyatis africana, Dasyatis borodini, Dasyatis branisai, 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 margaritella, Dasyatis martini, Dasyatis molassicus, Dasyatis molinoensis, Dasyatis newegyptensis, Dasyatis northdakotaensis, 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 tricuspidatus, Dasyatis vicaryi, Dasyatis wochadunensis, Trygon rugosus, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon muricatus, Trygon vorstmani, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon zignii, Trygon oblongus, Trygon sinhaleyus, Trygon dux, Heliobatis radians

Type specimen: PDE356a, a tooth. Its type locality is Econssa (E1ab layer), which is in a Tortonian shoreface sandstone in the Bahía Inglesa Formation of Chile.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Econssa (E1ab layer)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.