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Potamotrygonidae
Taxonomy
Potamotrygonidae is a family.
It was assigned to Masticura by Jordan (1963); to Myliobatiformes by Lundberg (1997); and to Myliobatoidei by Nelson et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Masticura by Jordan (1963); to Myliobatiformes by Lundberg (1997); and to Myliobatoidei by Nelson et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1963 | Potamotrygonidae Jordan p. 604 |
| 1997 | Potamotrygonidae Lundberg p. 69 figs. 5.1, 5.2B |
| 2016 | Potamotrygonidae Nelson et al. p. 91 |
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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.
Fm. †Potamotrygonidae
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 38.00000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 37.71 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 37.71 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | Peru (Loreto) | Potamotrygon ucayalensis (176140) | |
| Priabonian - Rupelian | Peru (Loreto) | Potamotrygon ucayalensis (144474) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Peru | Potamotrygon canaanorum (199561) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Peru (Loreto) | Potamotrygon sp. (176147) Potamotrygonidae indet. (176130) | |
| Colhuehuapian | Peru | Potamotrygon sp. (176149) | |
| Middle Miocene | Peru (Loreto) | Potamotrygonidae indet., Potamotrygon rajachloeae, Potamotrygon canaanorum (224007) | |
| Middle Miocene | Peru | Potamotrygon sp. (176135) | |
| Serravallian | Argentina (Entre Rios) | Potamotrygonidae indet. (55599) | |
| Serravallian - Tortonian | Peru | Potamotrygonidae indet., Potamotrygon motoro (176156) | |
| Laventan | Colombia (Huila) | Potamotrygonidae indet. (186683) P. sp. (186639) | |
| Tortonian | Brazil (Acre) | Potamotrygonidae indet. (55602) | |
| Tortonian | Peru | Potamotrygon motoro, Potamotrygon sp. (176133 176162) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Venezuela (Falcon) | Potamotrygon sp. (122033) |