Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhinopteridae
Alternative spelling: Rhinopterinae
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to K. M. Cantalice et al. 2025
See also Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016, Popov et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Szabo et al. 2017, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatidae, Dasyatoidea, Eomanta, Gymnuridae, Hypolophodon, Mobuloidea, Myliobatidae, Myliobatoidea, Myliobatoidei, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Texabatis, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae
Subtaxa: Eorhinoptera Garabatis Rhinoptera
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), United States (2: Florida, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Mexico (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Austria (5), Brazil (4), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (11), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (9: Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), Oman (1), Peru (1), United States (4: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Chile (2), Egypt (22), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (4), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (22: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Nigeria (1), United States (3: Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Egypt (1), India (1)
Total: 151 collections including 160 occurrences