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Rhinobatidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63019	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63019

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Rajiformes : Rhinobatidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii
-	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Batomorphii	Capetta 1980
order	Rajiformes	Berg 1940
family	Rhinobatidae	Müller and Henle 1837

Common Name

guitarfish

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Selachii	stated with evidence	Woodward, 1889
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Sarcura	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Squatinorajiformes	stated without evidence	Cassier, 1966
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinobatoidea	stated without evidence	Jonet, 1968
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rajiformes	stated without evidence	Herman, 1975
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinobatoidei	stated without evidence	Case, 1978
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinobatoidei	stated with evidence	Thies, 1983
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinobatoidea	stated without evidence	Kumar and Loyal, 1987
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinobatoidei	stated without evidence	Cappetta, 1987
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Batoidea	stated without evidence	Goodwin et al., 1999
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rajiformes	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinobatiformes	stated without evidence	Purdy et al., 2001
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rajiformes	stated with evidence	Underwood, 2002
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rajiformes	stated without evidence	Underwood and Ward, 2004
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinobatoidei	stated without evidence	Kriwet et al., 2007
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rajiformes	stated without evidence	Carnevale et al., 2014
Rhinobatidae	family	belongs to Rhinopristiformes	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (6.5%)

First Recorded Appearance

183 - 174 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Rajiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Rajiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Peng, A. P. Russell, and D. B. Brinkman. 2001. Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25:1-54

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aellopos ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Arthrobatis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Belemnobatis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		13	183 Ma Early Jurassic	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cyclarthrus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Demiurga ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Euryarthra ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Glaucostegus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Paratrygonorrhina genus	listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Platypterix ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Rhinobatos genus	listed (PBDB)	Guitarfish	97	152 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Rhinobatus genus	listed (PBDB)		20	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	13.8 Ma Miocene
Rhombopterygia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Rhynchobatis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Spathobatis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		10	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Squatinoraja ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Syrrhina ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Tarsistes ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Trygonorhina ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Zapteryx ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1837	Rhinobatidae Müller and Henle
1889	Rhinobatidae Woodward p. 77
1963	Rhinobatidae Jordan p. 603
1966	Rhinobatidae Cassier p. 89
1968	Rhinobatidae Jonet p. 241
1975	Rhinobatidae Herman p. 272
1978	Rhinobatidae Case p. 193
1980	Rhinobatidae Capetta p. 178
1981	Rhinobatidae Case p. 68
1983	Rhinobatidae Thies p. 44
1987	Rhinobatidae Cappetta p. 134
1987	Rhinobatidae Kumar and Loyal p. 67
1993	Rhinobatidae Biddle p. 215

Year	Name and Author
1999	Rhinobatidae Goodwin et al. p. 732
2001	Rhinobatidae Peng et al. p. 8
2001	Rhinobatidae Purdy et al. p. 89
2002	Rhinobatidae Underwood
2004	Rhinobatidae Underwood and Ward p. 489
2005	Rhinobatidae Tabuce et al. p. 387
2006	Rhinobatidae Underwood p. 234
2007	Rhinobatidae Everhart p. 226
2007	Rhinobatidae Kriwet et al.
2009	Rhinobatidae Kriwet et al. p. 324
2014	Rhinobatidae Carnevale et al. p. 41
2019	Rhinobatidae Ebersole et al. p. 106

References

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1, 1-613

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Cassier F. C. (1966) Faune Ichthyologique du London Clay, 1-496

Jonet S. (1968) Notes d'ichthyologie Miocene Portugaise; V, Queleques batoides, Revista de Faculdade de Ciencias 2a Ser. C. Ciencias Naturais 15, 233-257

Herman J. (1975) Les Selaciens de sterrains neocretaces and paleocenes de Belgique and des contrees limitrophes Elements d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale, Memoires pour servier a l'explications des Cartes geologiques et minieres de la Belgique 15, 1-401

Case G. R. (1978) A new selachian fauna from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160 Lfg. 1-6, 176-205

Capetta H. (1980) Les selaciens du Cretace superieur du Liban. II: Batoides, Palaeontolographica Abt. A 168 5-6, 149-229

Case G. R. (1981) Late Eocene Selachians from South-Central Georgia, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 176 Lfg. 1-3, 52-79

Thies D. (1983) Jurazeitliche Neoselachier aus Deutschland und S-England (Jurassic neoselachians from German and S-England), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 58, 1-116

Cappetta H. (1987) , Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Chondrichthyes II Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii, 1-193

Kumar K., Loyal R. S. (1987) Eocene ichthyofauna from the Subathu Formation, Northwestern Himalaya, India., Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32, 60-84

Biddle J. P. (1993) Les Elasmobranches de l'Albien inferieur et moyen (Cretace inferieur) de la Marne et de la Haute-Marne (France), Belgian Geological Survey 264, 191-240

Goodwin M. B., Clemens W. A., et al (1999) Mesozoic continental vertebrates with associated palynostratigraphic dates from the northwestern Ethiopian plateau, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19 4, 728-741

Purdy R. W., Schneider V. P., et al (2001) The Neogene sharks, rays, and bony fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90, 71-202

Underwood C. J. (2002) Sharks, rays and a chimaeroid from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Ringstead, Southern England, Palaeontology 45 2, 297-325

Underwood C. J., Ward D. J. (2004) Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic), Palaeontology 47 3, 447-501

Tabuce R., Adnet S., et al (2005) Aznag (bassin d'Ouarzazate, Maroc), nouvelle localite a selaciens et mammiferes de l'Eocene moyen (Lutetien) d'Afrique, Bulletin de la societe Geologique du France 2005 176, 381-400

Underwood C. J. (2006) Diversification of the Neoselachii (Chondrichthyes) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, Paleobiology 32 2, 215-235

Everhart M. J. (2007) New stratigraphic records (Albian-Campanian) of Rhinobatos sp. (Chondrichthyes; Rajiformes) from the Cretaceous of Kansas, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110 3/4, 225-235

Kriwet J., Soler-Gijón R., et al (2007) Neoselachians from the upper Campanian and lower Maatrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of the southern Pyrenees, northern Spain, Palaeontology 50 5, 1051-1071 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00695.x

Kriwet J., Nunn E. V., et al (2009) Neoselachians (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Lower and lower Upper Cretaceous of north-eastern Spain, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 2, 316-347 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00439.x

Carnevale G., Bannikov A. F., et al (2014) The Pesciara-Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates, Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 4, 37-63

Ebersole J. A., Cicimurri D. J., et al (2019) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, European Journal of Taxonomy 585, 1-274 doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585

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