Subfamily Rhinopterinae Jordan and Evermann 1896 (cow-nosed ray)

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

Alternative spelling: Rhinopteridae

Parent taxon: Myliobatidae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022

See also Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Szabo et al. 2017, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and VillafaƱa et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Aetobatinae, Apocopodon, Brachyrhizodus, Ceratopterina, Igdabatis, Leidybatis, Lophobatis, Meridiania, Mesobatis, Mobulinae, Myliobates, Myliobatina, Myliobatinae, Myliobatis, Pteromylaeus

Subtaxa: Eorhinoptera Garabatis Rhinoptera

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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), Colombia (1), 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 (22), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (22: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Nigeria (1), United States (4: Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina)

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

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Egypt (1), India (1)

Total: 146 collections including 155 occurrences

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