†Hypolophites thaleri Cappetta 1972 (whiptail stingray)
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Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1972. Les poissons crétacés et tertiaires du bassin des Iullemmeden (République du Niger). Palaeovertebrata 5:179-251
Belongs to Hypolophites according to H. Cappetta 1987
See also Cappetta 1972
Sister taxa: Hypolophites mayumbensis, Hypolophites myliobatoides
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sessao, which is in a Thanetian marginal marine marl in Niger
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Sessao
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