Dasyatis

Dasyatis is a genus of stingray in the family Dasyatidae that is native to the Atlantic, including the Mediterranean. In a 2016 taxonomic revision, many of the species formerly assigned to Dasyatis were reassigned to other genera.

A picture published with the record for Dasyatis.

Glen Bowman from Newcastle, England · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasyatinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 409 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 409 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 409 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 42 of 409 occurrencesEocene — about 135 of 409 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 409 occurrencesMiocene — about 134 of 409 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 409 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 409 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 14 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 28 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 29 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 39 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 30 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 25 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 18 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 11 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 11 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 33 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 66 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 32 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 43 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

409 occurrences of Dasyatis on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

409 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

123 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.08°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 3.89°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.15°N, 36.40°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.09°N, 36.31°EMatam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WMatam — 15.31°N, 13.09°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WEsbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.11°N, 8.36°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°WDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EEl Molino — 17.69°S, 65.94°WEl Molino — 18.14°S, 65.76°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WSubathu — 30.98°N, 76.98°ESubathu — 29.81°N, 78.61°ESubathu — 30.08°N, 78.34°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCouche II — 32.87°N, 6.57°WCouche II — 32.72°N, 6.78°WCouche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°ELisbon — 31.83°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WAtuatuca — 50.84°N, 5.55°EWeissenegg — 46.89°N, 15.51°EUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WUrumaco — 11.24°N, 70.25°WChucunaque — 9.13°N, 78.75°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WKortrijk Clay — 50.80°N, 3.22°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WGreen River — 41.78°N, 110.73°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WCantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°WDry Branch — 33.50°N, 84.74°WDry Branch — 33.12°N, 81.70°W

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The named rock units Dasyatis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 99 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 126 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dasyatis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dasyatis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 283 sites for Dasyatis, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

176 references

Each of the 409 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 164 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Dasyatis

Credit
Glen Bowman from Newcastle, England
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dasyatis guttata · TCWC:Ichthyology:12345.02

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDasyatinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1810