Toarcibatis

Toarcibatis is an extinct genus of rays that lived during the Early Jurassic. It contains four valid species which have been found in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and Spain.[1] It was originally referred to the family "Archaeobatidae",[1] but was later reassigned to the family Toarcibatidae.[2]

Toarcibatis
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Superorder:
Batoidea
Order:
incertae sedis
Family:
†Toarcibatidae
Genus:
†Toarcibatis

Delsate & Candoni, 2001[1]
Type species
†Toarcibatis elongata
Delsate & Candoni, 2001
Other species
  • †Toarcibatis alticarinata
    Delsate & Candoni, 2001
  • †Toarcibatis brevicristata
    Delsate & Candoni, 2001
  • †Toarcibatis multicristata
    Delsate & Candoni, 2001

References
  1. Delsate, D.; Candoni, L. (2001). "Description de nouveaux morphotypes dentaires de Batomorphii toarciens (Jurassique inférieur) du Bassin de Paris: Archaeobatidae nov. fam". Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois. 102: 131–143.
  2. Greenfield, T.; Delsate, D.; Candoni, L. (2022). "Toarcibatidae fam. nov., a replacement for the unavailable name Archaeobatidae Delsate & Candoni, 2001 (Chondrichthyes, Batomorphii)". Zootaxa. 5195 (5): 499–500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5195.5.8. S2CID 252926330.
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