Aetobatus Blainville 1816 (stingray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae

Alternative spellings: Aetiobatis, Aetobatis

Synonyms: Aetobates Richardson 1846, Goniobatis Agassiz 1858, Stoasodon Cantor 1850

Parent taxon: Aetobatidae according to J. A. VillafaƱa et al. 2020

See also Andrews 1906, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1987, Case 1981, Casier 1946, Cassier 1966, Ebersole et al. 2019, Gill 1894, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Iturralde-Vinent et al. 1998, Jaekel 1894, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Owen 1859, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Aetobatis marginalis Aetobatis profundus Aetobatis subarcuatus Aetobatis sulcatus Aetobatus aragonis Aetobatus arcuatus Aetobatus irregularis Aetobatus narinari Aetobatus omaliusi Aetobatus poeyi Stoasodon perspicuus

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Type: Raja narinari

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (4: Alabama, Florida, Georgia collections)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Libya (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Austria (3), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (6), Germany (1), India (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Sri Lanka (2), United States (13: Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1)

• Eocene of Egypt (6), Libya (2), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (13: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Virginia)

Total: 114 collections including 125 occurrences

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