Coupatezia Cappetta 1982 (stingray)

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

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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

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