Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes
Parent taxon: Dasyatoidea according to G. Guinot et al. 2023
See also Adnet et al. 2020, Cappetta 1987, Cappetta and Corral 1999, Case et al. 2015, Corral et al. 2016, Ebersole et al. 2019, Feichtinger et al. 2022, Kriwet et al. 2007, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Tabuce et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Arechia, Dasyrhombodus, Delpitia, Heterobatis, Heterotorpedo, Ishaquia, Lessiniabatis, Merabatis, Myliodasyatis, Prosopodon, Saltirius
Subtaxa: Coupatezia ambroggii Coupatezia attiai Coupatezia boujoi Coupatezia chariri Coupatezia cristata Coupatezia danica Coupatezia elevata Coupatezia fallax Coupatezia laevis Coupatezia larivei Coupatezia melittiana Coupatezia reniformis Coupatezia trempina Coupatezia turneri Coupatezia woutersi
Type: Coupatezia woutersi
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Egypt (7 collections), France (1), Morocco (10), Senegal (3), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of France (1), Morocco (9), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), France (1), India (1), Morocco (14), Spain (3), Syria (3), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 75 collections including 97 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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