Original paper
A new elasmobranch genus (Myliobatiformes, Dasyatoidea) from the Danian of Potosí (Bolivia)
Cappetta, Henri; Gayet, Mireille
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 269 Heft 3 (2013), p. 285 - 290
published: Sep 1, 2013
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0351
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Abstract
Potobatis semperei gen. et sp. nov. sp. (Myliobatiformes, Dasyatoidea) comes from a level located at the top of the section of the El Molino Formation at La Palca, near Potosí. This level is Danian in age according to magnetostratigraphic studies. Close to the African genus Hypolophites (Dasyatoidea, Dasyatidae) by its dental morphology, the new genus differs from the latter by its much smaller size and by its less specialized dentition. The palaeoenvironment was probably an estuarine or a mangrove area.
Keywords
danian • rays • systematics • palaeoenvironment • palaeobiogeography • south america