Tethytrygon is an extinct genus of stingray in the family Dasyatidae.
Tethytrygon Temporal range: Eocene
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Fossil of Tethytrygon from Monte Bolca, 50 million years ago, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Myliobatiformes |
Family: | Dasyatidae |
Genus: | †Tethytrygon Marramà, G., G. Carnevale, G. J. P. Naylor, and J. Kriwet, 2018 |
Species: | †T. muricata
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Binomial name | |
†Tethytrygon muricata (Volta, 1796)
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