Quick Links : Mindat手册 The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Mindat Newsletter [Free Download]

主页关于 Mindat Mindat手册 Mindat的历史版权 Who We Are 联系我们于 Mindat.org刊登广告

捐赠给 Mindat Corporate Sponsorship 赞助板页已赞助的板页在 Mindat刊登广告的广告商于 Mindat.org刊登广告

Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

搜索矿物的性质搜索矿物的化学 Advanced Locality Search 随意显示任何一种矿物 Random Locality 使用minID搜索邻近产地 Search Articles 搜索词汇表更多搜索选项

Mindat手册添加新照片 Rate Photos 产区编辑报告 Coordinate Completion Report 添加词汇表项目

Mining Companies 统计会员列表 Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations 矿物展及活动 The Mindat目录表设备设置 The Mineral Quiz

照片搜索 Photo Galleries Search by Color 今天最新的照片昨天最新的照片用户照片相集过去每日精选照片相集 Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Spathobatis ✝

Photos

Photo Gallery

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	34713	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34713

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Rajiformes : Rhinobatidae : Spathobatis

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii
-	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Batomorphii	Capetta 1980
order	Rajiformes	Berg 1940
family	Rhinobatidae	Müller and Henle 1837
genus	Spathobatis	Thiollière 1849

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated with evidence	Thies, 1983
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated without evidence	Cappetta, 1987
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Batoidea	stated without evidence	Underwood et al., 1999
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Galeomorphii	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated with evidence	Underwood, 2002
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatoidei	stated with evidence	Underwood and Rees, 2002
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated with evidence	Underwood and Ward, 2004
Spathobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated without evidence	Kriwet et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

174 - 170 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

133 - 129 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Rajiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Rajiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Spathobatis bugesiacus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	156 Ma Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Spathobatis delsatei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Spathobatis moorbergensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Spathobatis mutterlosei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	157 Ma Jurassic	157 Ma Jurassic
Spathobatis uppensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	157 Ma Jurassic	157 Ma Jurassic
Spathobatis werneri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1849	Spathobatis Thiollière
1963	Spathobatis Jordan p. 603
1983	Spathobatis Thies p. 44
1987	Spathobatis Cappetta p. 138
1993	Spathobatis Biddle p. 215
1999	Spathobatis Underwood et al. p. 294

Year	Name and Author
2002	Spathobatis Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Spathobatis Underwood
2002	Spathobatis Underwood and Rees p. 94
2004	Spathobatis Underwood and Ward p. 494
2009	Spathobatis Kriwet et al. p. 325

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Thies D. (1983) Jurazeitliche Neoselachier aus Deutschland und S-England (Jurassic neoselachians from German and S-England), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 58, 1-116

Cappetta H. (1987) , Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Chondrichthyes II Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii, 1-193

Biddle J. P. (1993) Les Elasmobranches de l'Albien inferieur et moyen (Cretace inferieur) de la Marne et de la Haute-Marne (France), Belgian Geological Survey 264, 191-240

Underwood C. J., Michell S. F., et al (1999) Shark and Ray teeth from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of north-east England, Palaeontology 42 2, 287-302

Underwood C. J. (2002) Sharks, rays and a chimaeroid from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Ringstead, Southern England, Palaeontology 45 2, 297-325

Underwood C. J., Rees J. (2002) Selachian faunas from the lowermost Purbeck Group of Dorset, southern England, Special Papers in Palaeontology 68, 83-101

Underwood C. J., Ward D. J. (2004) Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic), Palaeontology 47 3, 447-501

Kriwet J., Nunn E. V., et al (2009) Neoselachians (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Lower and lower Upper Cretaceous of north-eastern Spain, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 2, 316-347 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00439.x

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Synonymy List References

Go to top of page