Myliobatoidea

Searched as Myliobatoidea indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Myliobatoidea as the accepted name.

Myliobatoidea

the manta ray had a family · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
MyliobatiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 13 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 30 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

30 occurrences of Myliobatoidea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

30 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

16 formations

San Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WLa Meseta — 64.20°S, 56.62°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.67°WBissekty — 40.70°N, 72.60°EBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EChilcatay — 14.62°S, 75.63°WSanta Margarita — 35.45°N, 120.28°WParana — 31.38°S, 60.23°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WGaiman — 43.28°S, 65.45°WMuwaddar Chalk Marl — 31.56°N, 36.51°EMission Valley — 32.92°N, 117.09°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WSeria — 4.81°N, 114.67°EPirabas — 0.59°S, 47.32°WLoreto — 53.14°S, 71.06°WPietra Leccese — 40.33°N, 18.19°E

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The named rock units Myliobatoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myliobatoidea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Myliobatoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

854 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Myliobatoidea, 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

19 references

Each of the 30 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. 7 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 content1

Picture of Myliobatoidea

Credit
the manta ray had a family
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myliobatoidea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMyliobatiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.