Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Synonyms: Micromesus Gill 1865, Mylorhina Gill 1865, Trikeras Harless 1850, Trycera Doderlein 1884, Zygobates Agassiz 1838, Zygobatis Agassiz 1838
Parent taxon: Rhinopteridae according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
See also Adegoke 1977, Bohm 1926, Cappetta 1987, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1981, Casier 1946, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1894, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Kent 2018, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Maisch et al. 2014, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Owen 1859, Purdy et al. 2001, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Szabo et al. 2017, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Udovichenko and Nessov 1987, Werner 1989, White 1926 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Eorhinoptera, Garabatis
Subtaxa: Rhinoptera daviesii Rhinoptera dubius Rhinoptera maja Rhinoptera marginata Rhinoptera prisca Rhinoptera raeburni Rhinoptera rasilis Rhinoptera schultzi Rhinoptera sherboni Rhinoptera sherborni Rhinoptera smithi Rhinoptera studeri Rhinoptera woodwardi
Type: Myliobatis marginata
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), United States (2: Florida, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Austria (5), Brazil (4), Costa Rica (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (11), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (9: Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), Oman (1), Peru (1), United States (4: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Chile (2), Egypt (21), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (21: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Nigeria (1), United States (3: Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Egypt (1), India (1)
Total: 140 collections including 146 occurrences
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