Myliobatis aquila
The common eagle ray or bullray is a species of fish in the family Myliobatidae. It inhabits the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the south-western Indian Ocean.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyliobatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 774 ka.
5 occurrences of Myliobatis aquila on record. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene20%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Myliobatis aquila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Pteromylaeus4 sites
- Aetobatus cappettai3 sites
- Bathytoshia centroura3 sites
- Carcharhinus perezi3 sites
- Carcharias acutissima3 sites
- Dasyatis3 sites
- Dasyatis gigas3 sites
- Dasyatis pastinaca3 sites
- Fontitrygon margaritella3 sites
- Galeorhinus goncalvesi3 sites
- Gymnura3 sites
- Isurus desori3 sites
- Mustelus3 sites
- Pachyscyllium dachiardi3 sites
- Paragaleus antunesi3 sites
- Prolagus3 sites
- Raja3 sites
- Rhinobatos3 sites
- Rhinoptera3 sites
- Sphyrna3 sites
- Alopias superciliosus2 sites
- Anoxypristis2 sites
- Blancomys2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Myliobatis aquila, and this reads all 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
3 references- Latest Miocene myliobatids (Batoidei, Selachii) from the Alvalade Basin, Portugal3
- Ictiologia fossil del Plioce del Baix Llobregat III Els Batoideus (condrictis hipotremats)1
- La stratigraphie du remplissage de la Grotte du Vallonnet.1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Myliobatis aquila
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- riblje-oko.hr
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyliobatis through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)