Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to G. Guinot et al. 2012
See also Cappetta 1984, Cappetta 1987, Kriwet et al. 2007, Müller and Diedrich 1991 and Popov et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatoidei, Eomobula, Hypolophodon, Mobuloidea, Myliobatoidea, Myliobatoidei, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Texabatis
Subtaxa: Arechia Coupatezia Dasyrhombodus Delpitia Heterobatis Heterotorpedo Ishaquia Lessiniabatis Merabatis Myliodasyatis Potobatis Prosopodon Saltirius
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Greece (1 collection)
• Eocene of Egypt (10), France (3), India (1), Italy (1), Jordan (1), Morocco (10), the Netherlands (2), Senegal (3), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Bolivia (1), France (2), Morocco (11), Togo (1), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Egypt (2), France (1), India (1), Jordan (1), Morocco (17), Spain (3), Syria (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 102 collections including 188 occurrences