Myliobatis sendaicus

Jack Woods · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- MyliobatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Myliobatis sendaicus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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 sendaicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Myliobatis sendaicus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Myliobatis sendaicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharhinus leucas1 site
- Carcharhinus longimanus1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Cetorhinus1 site
- Dasyatidae1 site
- Hemitrygon akajei1 site
- Sphyrna zygaena1 site
- Squalus1 site
- Squatina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Myliobatis sendaicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The elasmobranch fossil fauna from the Tatsunokuchi Formation (upper Miocene-lower Pliocene) at Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan1
- A sting ray and eagle ray from the Tatsunokuchi Formation (Pliocene) in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan1
Each of the 2 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 sendaicus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Jack Woods
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Myliobatis sendaicus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMyliobatis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hatai et al. 1965