Aetomylaeus Garman 1908 (eagle ray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

Parent taxon: Myliobatinae according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019

See also Cappetta 1987, Iturralde-Vinent et al. 1998, Jordan 1963, Maisch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Szabo et al. 2017

Sister taxon: Pseudaetobatus

Subtaxa: Aetomylaeus cojimarensis Aetomylaeus cubensis Aetomylaeus dixoni Aetomylaeus maculatus Aetomylaeus striatus

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Cuba (2), Hungary (1), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (2)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Senegal (1), Togo (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (17: Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Brazil (1), Saudi Arabia (10), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), United States (8: Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)

• Tertiary of United States (2: New Jersey)

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

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Maryland)

Total: 64 collections including 80 occurrences

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