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Dasyatis
Taxonomy
Dasyatis was named by Rafinesque (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: K Ceno-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 2,884]. It is extant. Its type is Dasyatis ujo. It is the type genus of Dasyatinae.
It was assigned to Rhinobatidae by Dica et al. (1996); to Myliobatiformes by Underwood et al. (1999), Sepkoski (2002); to Dasyatinae by Last et al. (2016); and to Dasyatidae by Hay (1902), Casier (1946), Jordan (1963), Casier (1966), Jonet (1968), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Cappetta (1987), Bryant (1989), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Noubhani and Cappetta (1997), Purdy et al. (2001), Tabuce et al. (2005), Rana et al. (2006), Balbino and Antunes (2006), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Marramà et al. (2018), Kent (2018), Hoganson et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2019), Villafaña et al. (2020), Rana et al. (2021), Cicimurri et al. (2022), Guinot et al. (2023), Landau et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Rhinobatidae by Dica et al. (1996); to Myliobatiformes by Underwood et al. (1999), Sepkoski (2002); to Dasyatinae by Last et al. (2016); and to Dasyatidae by Hay (1902), Casier (1946), Jordan (1963), Casier (1966), Jonet (1968), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Cappetta (1987), Bryant (1989), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Noubhani and Cappetta (1997), Purdy et al. (2001), Tabuce et al. (2005), Rana et al. (2006), Balbino and Antunes (2006), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Marramà et al. (2018), Kent (2018), Hoganson et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2019), Villafaña et al. (2020), Rana et al. (2021), Cicimurri et al. (2022), Guinot et al. (2023), Landau et al. (2025).
Species
D. africana, D. borodini, D. branisai, D. carolinensis, D. cavernosa, D. charlisae, D. commercensis, D. concavifoveus, D. datasi, D. davisi, D. fallax, D. gigas, D. hastata, D. hexagonalis, D. jaekeli, D. manuelcamposi, D. margaritella, D. martini, D. molassicus, D. molinoensis, D. newegyptensis, D. northdakotaensis, D. pastinaca (syn. D. ujo), D. ponsi, D. probsti, D. rafinesquei, D. rugosa, D. russelli, D. schaefferi, D. serralheiroi, D. sessaoensis, D. speetonensis, D. strangulata, D. sudrei, D. tetraedra, D. tricuspidatus, D. vicaryi, D. wochadunensis, Heliobatis radians, Trygon alveolatus, Trygon dux, Trygon gazzolae, Trygon muricatus, Trygon oblongus, Trygon rugosus, Trygon sinhaleyus, Trygon vorstmani, Trygon zignii
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1775 | Dasybatus Klein |
| 1810 | Dasyatis Rafinesque |
| 1817 | Trygon Cuvier |
| 1835 | Trygon Agassiz p. 38ff |
| 1860 | Alexandrinum Molin |
| 1873 | Trygon Leidy p. 353 |
| 1880 | Dasybatis Jordan and Gilbert |
| 1888 | Trygon Davis p. 37 |
| 1889 | Trygon Woodward p. 152 |
| 1894 | Trygon Jaekel p. 63 |
| 1902 | Dasyatis Hay p. 319 |
| 1904 | Trygon Eastman p. 23 |
| 1918 | Trygon Chapman p. 22 |
| 1924 | Trygon Chapman and Cudmore p. 138 |
| 1926 | Trygon Leriche p. 385 |
| 1926 | Trygon de Beaufort p. 119 |
| 1942 | Trygon Leriche p. 13 |
| 1946 | Dasyatis Casier p. 101 |
| 1963 | Dasybatus Jordan p. 603 |
| 1963 | Dasyatis Jordan p. 604 |
| 1963 | Trygon Jordan p. 604 |
| 1966 | Dasyatis Casier p. 91 |
| 1968 | Dasyatis Jonet p. 247 |
| 1969 | Trygon Deraniyagala p. 7 |
| 1981 | Dasyatis Thurmond and Jones p. 74 |
| 1987 | Dasyatis Cappetta p. 163 |
| 1989 | Dasyatis Bryant p. 13 |
| 1993 | Dasyatis Cvancara and Hoganson p. 10 |
| 1996 | Dasyatis Dica et al. p. 120 |
| 1997 | Dasyatis Noubhani and Cappetta p. 99 |
| 1999 | Dasyatis Underwood et al. p. 294 |
| 2001 | Dasyatis Purdy et al. p. 90 |
| 2002 | Dasyatis Sepkoski |
| 2005 | Dasyatis Tabuce et al. p. 387 |
| 2006 | Dasyatis Balbino and Antunes p. 748 |
| 2006 | Dasyatis Rana et al. p. 519 |
| 2009 | Dasyatis Cicimurri and Knight p. 637 |
| 2015 | Dasyatis Reinecke and Radwanski p. 14 |
| 2016 | Dasyatis Last et al. p. 354 |
| 2018 | Dasyatis Kent p. 126 |
| 2018 | Dasyatis Marramà et al. p. 287 |
| 2019 | Dasyatis Ebersole et al. p. 112 |
| 2019 | Dasyatis Hoganson et al. p. 40 |
| 2020 | Dasyatis Villafaña et al. |
| 2021 | Dasyatis Rana et al. p. 12 |
| 2022 | Dasyatis Cicimurri et al. |
| 2023 | Dasyatis Guinot et al. pp. 17-19 fig. 10 |
| 2025 | Dasyatis Landau et al. p. 35 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Dasyatis Rafinesque 1810
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†Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959
†Dasyatis borodini Case 1981
†Dasyatis branisai Cappetta 1975
†Dasyatis carolinensis Emmons 1858
†Dasyatis cavernosa Probst 1877
†Dasyatis charlisae Case 1981
†Dasyatis commercensis Case and Cappetta 1997
†Dasyatis concavifoveus Cvancara and Hoganson 1993
†Dasyatis datasi Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
†Dasyatis davisi Cassier 1966
†Dasyatis fallax Arambourg 1952
†Dasyatis gigas Gunther 1870
Dasyatis hastata De Kay 1842
†Dasyatis hexagonalis Arambourg 1952
†Dasyatis jaekeli Leriche 1906
†Dasyatis manuelcamposi Villafaña et al. 2025
†Dasyatis margaritella Compagno and Roberts 1984
†Dasyatis martini Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
†Dasyatis molassicus Probst 1877
†Dasyatis molinoensis Cappetta 1975
†Dasyatis newegyptensis Case et al. 2001
†Dasyatis northdakotaensis Hoganson et al. 2019
†Dasyatis ponsi Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
†Dasyatis probsti Cappetta 1970
†Dasyatis rafinesquei Kumar and Loyal 1987
†Dasyatis rugosa Probst 1877
†Dasyatis russelli Cappetta 1972
†Dasyatis schaefferi Cappetta 1975
†Dasyatis serralheiroi Cappetta 1970
†Dasyatis sessaoensis Cappetta 1972
†Dasyatis speetonensis Underwood et al. 1999
†Dasyatis strangulata Probst 1877
†Dasyatis sudrei Cappetta 1972
†Dasyatis tetraedra Arambourg 1952
†Dasyatis tricuspidatus Casier 1946
†Dasyatis vicaryi Loyal 1984
†Dasyatis wochadunensis Ward 1979
Invalid names: Alexandrinum Molin 1860 [synonym], Dasybatus Klein 1775 [replaced], Heliobatis [synonym], Trygon Cuvier 1817 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Hauterivian to the top of the Holocene or 132.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 125.77 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 125.77 Ma
Collections (236 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Cretaceous | New Zealand (South Island) | Trygon sp. (204190) | |
| Late/Upper Hauterivian | United Kingdom (England) | D. speetonensis (66420) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | France | D. sp. (242279) | |
| Middle Campanian | USA (North Carolina) | D. sp., D. commercensis (128412) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | India (Andhra Pradesh) | D. sp. (122240) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Dakota) | D. northdakotaensis (213580) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Arkansas) | D. sp. (242204) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Carolina) | D. commercensis (241417) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Texas) | D. commercensis (61738) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Morocco | D. martini (214368) D. sp. (99627) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | India (Maharashtra) | D. sp. (58102) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (New Jersey) | D. newegyptensis (61807) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Bolivia (Cochabamba) | D. branisai, D. molinoensis, D. schaefferi (12855) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Belgium (Limburg) | D. fallax (241927) | |
| Maastrichtian | India (Andhra Pradesh) | D. sp. (58101) | |
| Maastrichtian | India (Maharashtra) | D. sp. (60397) | |
| Maastrichtian | USA (Maryland) | D. sp. (83331) | |
| Maastrichtian | Bolivia | D. branisai, D. molinoensis, D. schaefferi (229879) D. sp. (229877) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Danian | Morocco | D. hexagonalis, D. tetraedra (214373) | |
| Pu3 | USA (Montana) | D. sp. (183113) | |