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Raja cecilae

Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae

Taxonomy

Raja cecilae was named by Steurbaut and Herman (1978). Its type specimen is IRSNB P.2648, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kruibeke, level S5-49, which is in a Rupelian marine claystone in the Boom Clay Formation of Belgium.

It was corrected as Raja ceciliae by Cappetta (1987); it was recombined as Atlantoraja cecilae by Reinecke (2015).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

R. agassizi, R. biloculata, R. terhagensis, R. sloani

Synonyms

Raja heinzelini was named by Steurbaut and Herman (1978). Its type specimen is IRSNB P.2646, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kruibeke, level 58, which is in a Rupelian marine claystone in the Boom Clay Formation of Belgium.

It was synonymized subjectively with Raja cecilae by Hovestadt and Hovestadt-Euler (1995); it was synonymized subjectively with Atlantoraja cecilae by Reinecke (2015).
Raja terhagenensis was named by Steurbaut and Herman (1978). Its type specimen is IRSNB P.2647, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Terhagen, level 41 sommet, which is in a Rupelian marine claystone in the Boom Clay Formation of Belgium.

It was synonymized subjectively with Raja cecilae by Hovestadt and Hovestadt-Euler (1995); it was synonymized subjectively with Atlantoraja cecilae by Reinecke (2015).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1978	Raja cecilae Steurbaut and Herman p. 306 figs. Pl 2, fig 4
1978	Raja heinzelini Steurbaut and Herman p. 306 figs. Pl 2, fig 2
1978	Raja terhagenensis Steurbaut and Herman p. 307 figs. Pl 2, fig 3
1985	Raja cecilae Bor p. 101 figs. Pl 5, figs 1,2
1985	Raja heinzelini Bor p. 101 figs. Pl 5, fig 3
1987	Raja ceciliae Cappetta p. 143
1987	Raja heinzelini Cappetta p. 144
1987	Raja terhagenensis Cappetta p. 144
1995	Raja cecilae Hovestadt and Hovestadt-Euler p. 265 figs. Pl 3, fig 1; pl 4, fig 1; pl 5, fig 1; pl 6, fig 1; pl 7, fig 1; pl 8, fig 1
2015	Atlantoraja cecilae Reinecke p. 3 figs. 3a, 6b

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

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Elasmobranchii	(Bonaparte 1838)
—	Euselachii	()
—	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Batomorphii
order	Rajiformes	Berg 1940
family	Rajidae	Blainville 1816
genus	Raja
species	cecilae

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.

†Raja cecilae Steurbaut and Herman 1978

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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 07:15:23

Modified:

2009-07-21 09:15:23

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

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

Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Rupelian or 48.07000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	Netherlands	Raja cecilae (276459)
Lutetian - Bartonian	48.07 - 37.71	Netherlands	Raja cecilae (276456)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	Belgium	Raja cecilae (277427 277429 277430 277443 277460 277466 277490 type locality: 277491)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	Germany	Raja ceciliae (46096)