†suborder Sclerorhynchoidei Cappetta 1980 (ray)

Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Les selaciens du Cretace superieur du Liban. II: Batoides. Palaeontolographica Abt. A 168(5-6):149-229

Parent taxon: Rajiformes according to E. Villalobos-Segura et al. 2019

See also Cappetta 1980, Cappetta 1987, Guinot et al. 2012, Kriwet et al. 2009 and Underwood 2006

Sister taxa: Antiquaobatis, Archaeobatidae, Archingeayia, Cyclobatidae, Dynatobatis, Engolismaia, Erguitaia, Hamrabatis, Hexatrygon, Hypolophidae, Hypsobatidae, Kiestus, Myeladaphus, Oncobatis, Ostarriraja, Parapalaeobatidae, Plesiobatis, Pristoidei, Rajidae, Rajoidei, Rhina, Rhinobatoidei, Sechmetia, Spathobatidae, Squatirhina, Tanoutia, Tomewingia, Torpedinoidea, Urobatis, Urotrygon, Zanobatus, Iberotrygon

Subtaxa: Ptychotrygonidae Sclerorhynchidae

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of France (1 collection)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1)

• Paleocene of Morocco (1), United States (2: Montana, New Jersey)

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

• Cretaceous of Algeria (11), Argentina (2), Austria (3), Belgium (1), Bolivia (5), Brazil (1), Canada (10: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Chile (8), Egypt (14), France (10), India (1), Israel (5), Japan (3), Jordan (5), Lebanon (4), Libya (1), Mali (1), Mexico (4), Morocco (16), New Zealand (2), Niger (10), Nigeria (1), Peru (2), Spain (7), Syria (7), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (129: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (3)

Total: 280 collections including 477 occurrences

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