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Pastinachus

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae

Taxonomy

Pastinachus was named by Rüppell (1828). It is extant.

It was assigned to Dasyatidae by Jordan (1963); and to Hypolophinae by Last et al. (2016), Adnet et al. (2018).

Species

P. kebarensis

Synonyms

Hypolophus was named by Muller and Henle (1837). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Pastinachus by Last et al. (2016).

It was assigned to Hypolophidae by Thurmond (1971), Herman (1977); and to Dasyatidae by Jordan (1963), Thurmond and Jones (1981).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1828	Pastinachus Rüppell p. 122
1837	Hypolophus Muller and Henle
1963	Hyplophus Jordan p. 604
1963	Pastinachus Jordan p. 604
1971	Hypolophus Thurmond p. 220
1977	Hypolophus Herman p. 281
1981	Hypolophus Thurmond and Jones p. 73
2016	Pastinachus Last et al. p. 364
2018	Pastinachus Adnet et al. p. 1217

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Chondrichthyes
infraclass	Elasmobranchii	(Bonaparte 1838)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Euselachii	()
—	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Batomorphii
order	Myliobatiformes	Compagno 1973
suborder	Myliobatoidei	Compagno 1973
family	Dasyatidae	Jordan 1888
subfamily	Hypolophinae	(Leriche 1902)
genus	Pastinachus	Rüppell 1828

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. Pastinachus Rüppell 1828

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†Pastinachus kebarensis Adnet et al. 2018

Invalid names: Hypolophus Muller and Henle 1837 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

nektobenthico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Created:

2009-07-21 07:05:51

Modified:

2009-07-21 09:05:51

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023

Age range: base of the Santonian to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 85.70000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (17 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	USA (Alabama)	Hypolophus sp. (3587)
Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (North Carolina)	Hypolophus sp. (57918)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	Tunisia (Sidi Bouzid Township)	P. kebarensis (173640)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Egypt	P. sp. (137578 137579 137580 137581 137582 137583 137585 137586 137587 137588 145984)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Angola (Cabinda)	Hypolophus sp. (56682)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Libya	P. sp. (276397)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Brunei Darussalam	P. sp. (194518)