Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Mobulidae
Alternative spelling: Mobulinae
Parent taxon: Myliobatoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001 and Tabuce et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Aetobatidae, Aturobatis, Dasyatidae, Gymnuridae, Hexatrygonidae, Myliobatidae, Plesiobatidae, Potamotrygonidae, Rhinopteridae, Rhombodontidae, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae, Zanobatidae
Subtaxa: Amamriabatis Archaeomanta Argoubia Brachioptilon Burnhamia Eomanta Eoplinthicus Mobula Oromobula Plinthicus
Type: Mobula
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), India (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Poland (1), Portugal (3), United States (7: New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), United States (6: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (3), Egypt (22), France (9), Jordan (1), Morocco (11), the Netherlands (4), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (8), United States (9: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (4)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (2), Morocco (7), Togo (1)
Total: 133 collections including 201 occurrences