Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Mobulidae
Alternative spelling: Mobulinae
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Purdy et al. 2001 and Tabuce et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatidae, Dasyatoidea, Eomanta, Gymnuridae, Hypolophodon, Mobuloidea, Myliobatidae, Myliobatoidea, Myliobatoidei, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Rhinopteridae, Texabatis, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae
Subtaxa: Amamriabatis Archaeomanta Brachioptilon Burnhamia Eomobula Eoplinthicus Mobula Paramobula Plinthicus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), India (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Poland (1), United States (7: New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of United States (6: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (17), Jordan (1), Morocco (12), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (7), United States (10: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (7)
Total: 101 collections including 160 occurrences