Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to G. Guinot et al. 2012
See also Cappetta 1984, Cappetta 1987, Kriwet et al. 2007 and Müller and Diedrich 1991
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Aetobatidae, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatidae, Eomanta, Gymnuridae, Hypolophodon, Mobuloidea, Myliobatidae, Myliobatoidea, Myliobatoidei, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Texabatis, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae
Subtaxa: Arechia Coupatezia Dasyrhombodus Delpitia Heterobatis Heterotorpedo Ishaquia Lessiniabatis Merabatis Myliodasyatis Prosopodon Saltirius
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Greece (1 collection)
• Eocene of Egypt (7), France (1), India (1), Italy (1), Jordan (1), Morocco (10), Senegal (3), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (1), Morocco (11), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), France (1), India (1), Jordan (1), Morocco (17), Spain (3), Syria (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 89 collections including 172 occurrences