Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatidae, Dasyatoidea, Eomanta, Gymnuridae, Hypolophodon, Mobuloidea, Myliobatidae, Myliobatoidea, Myliobatoidei, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Texabatis, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae
Subtaxa: Aetobatus
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