Subfamily Mobulinae Gill 1893

Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

Alternative spelling: Mobulidae

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

See also Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Purdy et al. 2001 and Tabuce et al. 2005

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

Subtaxa: Amamriabatis Archaeomanta Brachioptilon Burnhamia Ceratoptera Eomobula Eoplinthicus Manta Mobula Paramobula Plinthicus

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Distribution:

• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)

• MN 13 of Portugal (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1)

• Miocene of Belgium (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), India (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Poland (1), United States (7: New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of United States (5: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (17), Jordan (1), Morocco (12), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (7), United States (10: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (7)

Total: 100 collections including 158 occurrences

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