Potobatis
Potobatis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Myliobatiformes |
Superfamily: | Dasyatoidea |
Genus: | †Potobatis |
Species: | †P. semperei
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Binomial name | |
†Potobatis semperei Cappetta & Gayet, 2013
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Potobatis is an extinct genus of dasyatoid that lived during the Danian stage of the Palaeocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Potobatis semperei is known from the El Molino Formation of Bolivia.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.