Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Invalid subtaxa: Alexandrinum Molin 1860, Dasybatis Klein 1775 [replaced name], Dasybatus Klein 1775 [replaced name], Heliobatis, Trygon Cuvier 1817
Parent taxon: Dasyatinae according to P. R. Last et al. 2016
See also Agassiz 1835, Balbino and Antunes 2006, Bryant 1989, Cappetta 1987, Casier 1946, Casier 1966, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Davis 1888, de Beaufort 1926, Deraniyagala 1969, Dica et al. 1996, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebert 2003, Guinot et al. 2023, Hay 1902, Hoganson et al. 2019, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1925, Jaekel 1894, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Landau et al. 2025, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Marramà et al. 2018, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2006, Rana et al. 2021, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood et al. 1999, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Bathytoshia, Hemitrygon, Hypanus, Pteroplatytrygon, Taeniurops
Subtaxa: 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 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 thierryi Dasyatis tochtabusiensis Dasyatis tricuspidatus Dasyatis vicaryi Dasyatis wochadunensis Heliobatis radians Trygon alveolatus Trygon dux Trygon gazzolae Trygon muricatus Trygon oblongus Trygon rugosus Trygon sinhaleyus Trygon vorstmani Trygon zignii
Type: Dasyatis ujo
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (16 collections), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (4: Florida, Maryland, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (2), Libya (1), Spain (5), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (4), Belgium (5), Brazil (1), Chile (1), Costa Rica (3), Czechia (2), France (11), Germany (4), India (3), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (5), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (10), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Sri Lanka (2), United States (12: California, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (7)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), France (2), Germany (4), Pakistan (2), United States (3: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (4), Egypt (2), France (17), India (9), Italy (2), Jordan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), 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), France (1), Morocco (15), Niger (1), Sweden (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: 268 collections including 385 occurrences
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