Potobatis

Potobatis
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Myliobatiformes
Superfamily: Dasyatoidea
Genus: †
Species:
†P. semperei
Binomial name
†Potobatis semperei
Cappetta & Gayet, 2013

Potobatis is an extinct genus of dasyatoid that lived during the Danian stage of the Palaeocene epoch.

Distribution

Potobatis semperei is known from the El Molino Formation of Bolivia.[1]

References

  1. ^ Cappetta, Henri; Gayet, Mireille (1 September 2013). "A new elasmobranch genus (Myliobatiformes, Dasyatoidea) from the Danian of Potosí (Bolivia)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 269 (3): 285–290. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0351. ISSN 0077-7749. Retrieved 25 June 2025 – via Schweizerbart Science Publishers.


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