Rhinobatos incertus Cappetta 1973 (guitarfish)

Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1973. Selachians from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 47:504-514

Belongs to Rhinobatos according to H. M. Maisch et al. 2021

See also Bice and Shimada 2016, Cappetta 1973, Cappetta 1987, Cook et al. 2013, Nagrodski et al. 2012 and Underwood and Cumbaa 2010

Sister taxa: Rhinobatos auribatensis, Rhinobatos beurleni, Rhinobatos beurlini, Rhinobatos casieri, Rhinobatos echavei, Rhinobatos hakelensis, Rhinobatos ibericus, Rhinobatos incidens, Rhinobatos intermedius, Rhinobatos kiestensis, Rhinobatos ladoniaensis, Rhinobatos latus, Rhinobatos lobatus, Rhinobatos maronita, Rhinobatos obtusatus, Rhinobatos primarmatus, Rhinobatos rhinobatos, Rhinobatos sahnii, Rhinobatos seruensis, Rhinobatos steurbauti, Rhinobatos tenuirostris, Rhinobatos whitfieldi

Type specimen: SDK59, a tooth. Its type locality is SE of Hot Springs, which is in a Turonian marine sandstone in the Carlile Shale Formation of South Dakota.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), United States (8: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

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