†family Rhombodontidae Cappetta 1987 (stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1987. Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Chondrichthyes II Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii 1-193

Parent taxon: Myliobatoidea according to A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta 1994

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1987, Kriwet et al. 2007 and Underwood 2006

Sister taxa: Ixobatis, Promyliobatis

Subtaxa: Pucabatis Rhombodus

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Morocco (1 collection), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Bolivia (3), France (5), India (4), Israel (3), Jordan (3), Morocco (19), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Spain (6), Syria (7), Ukraine (1), United States (27: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)

Total: 83 collections including 102 occurrences

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