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Batoidea
Source Data |
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Rank | unranked clade (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Batoidea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Common Name | ray | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 291 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Extant Size (PBDB) | 54 (19%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 161 - 156 Ma Jurassic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Environment | marine (based on Vertebrata) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Batoidea) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | carnivore (based on Batoidea) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | W. C. Lancaster. 1986. The taphonomy of an archaeocete skeleton and its associated fauna. Proceedngs of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Myliobatiformes order | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Stingray | 1,516 | 161 Ma Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant |
Pristiformes order | listed (PBDB) | Sawfish | 0 Ma Extant | ||
Torpediniformes order | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Electric Ray | 15 | 56.0 Ma Paleocene | 0 Ma Extant |
Masticura ✝ suborder | listed (PBDB) | ||||
Rhinobatoidea ✝ superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 8 | 152 Ma Late Jurassic | 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
Cederstroemia ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
Cretascyllium ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1978 | Batoidea Case p. 195 |
1979 | Batoidea Herman p. 64 |
1981 | Batoidea Thurmond and Jones p. 69 |
1986 | Batoidea Lancaster p. 125 |
1999 | Batoidea Goodwin et al. p. 731 |
2011 | Batoidea Long p. 242 |
References
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!