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Belemnobatis ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	34679	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34679

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Rajiformes : Rhinobatidae : Belemnobatis

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
genus	Belemnobatis	Thiollière 1854

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Belemnobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated with evidence	Woodward, 1889
Belemnobatis	genus	belongs to Asterodermidae	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Belemnobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated without evidence	Cappetta, 1987
Belemnobatis	genus	belongs to Galeomorphii	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Belemnobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatoidei	stated with evidence	Underwood and Rees, 2002
Belemnobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated with evidence	Underwood and Ward, 2004
Belemnobatis	genus	belongs to Rhinobatidae	stated without evidence	Kriwet et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

183 - 174 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

140 - 133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

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. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Belemnobatis kermacki ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Belemnobatis noviodunumensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Belemnobatis picteti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Belemnobatis sismondae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	156 Ma Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Belemnobatis stahli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Belemnobatis variabilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1854	Belemnobatis Thiollière
1889	Belemnobatis Woodward p. 83
1963	Belemnobatis Jordan p. 603
1987	Belemnobatis Cappetta p. 134
2001	Belemnobatis Delsate and Candoni p. 140
2002	Belemnobatis Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Belemnobatis Underwood and Rees p. 94
2004	Belemnobatis Underwood and Ward p. 489
2009	Belemnobatis Kriwet et al. p. 324

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

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

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

Delsate D., Candoni L. W. (2001) Description de nouveaux morphotypes dentaires de Batomorphii toarciens (Jurassique inférieur) du Bassin de Paris: Archaeobatidae nov fam, Bull. Soc. Nat. Luxemb 102, 131-143

Underwood C. J., Rees J. (2002) Selachian faunas from the lowermost Purbeck Group of Dorset, southern England, Special Papers in Palaeontology 68, 83-101

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

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

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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