Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Alternative spellings: Aetiobatis, Aetobatis
Synonyms: Aetobates Richardson 1846, Goniobatis Agassiz 1858, Stoasodon Cantor 1850
Parent taxon: Aetobatidae according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Andrews 1906, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1987, Case 1981, Casier 1946, Cassier 1966, De Pasqua et al. 2025, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Gill 1894, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Iturralde-Vinent et al. 1998, Jaekel 1894, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Landau et al. 2025, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Owen 1859, Popov et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aetobatis arcuatus Aetobatis marginalis Aetobatis profundus Aetobatis subarcuatus Aetobatis sulcatus Aetobatus aragonis Aetobatus arcuatus Aetobatus cappettai Aetobatus irregularis Aetobatus narinari Aetobatus omaliusi Aetobatus poeyi Stoasodon perspicuus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Taiwan (1 collection), United States (4: Alabama, Florida, Georgia)
• Pliocene of Libya (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Austria (3), Belgium (2), Brunei Darussalam (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (2), Czechia (1), France (6), Germany (1), India (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (7), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Sri Lanka (2), United States (13: Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene of Angola (5), Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Angola (5), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (11), Libya (2), the Russian Federation (5), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (13: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Angola (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 146 collections including 158 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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