Myliobatis tumidens

Woodward, 1889


Classification: Elasmobranchii Myliobatiformes Myliobatidae

Reference of the original description
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.

Synonyms / new combinations and misspellings
Myliobates tumidens

Types
Myliobatis tumidens



Description:


Citation: Myliobatis tumidens Woodward, 1889: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 03/2024

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Description
Original description of Woodward, 1889 p. 119 [2593]:
An incompletely definable spe-cies, probably of Myliobatis, is indicated by the following median teeth from the Red Crag of Suffolk. The coronal contour is sharply raised in the middle, as in M. jugosus, Leidy, differing only from the latter tooth in the greater relative breadth of the rounded elevation.
P. 5580. Type specimen; a median tooth, measuring nearly 0'05 in breadth and 0.01 in length ; much abraded. Harford Coll.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=4007;
valid after Woodward (1889) p. 119 [2593];


References
Hovestadt, D.C. & Hovestadt-Euler, M. (2013)
Generic Assessment and Reallocation of Cenozoic Myliobatinae based on new information of tooth, tooth plate and caudal spine morphology of extant taxa. Palaeontos, 24, 1–66
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.