Amamriabatis is an extinct genus of devil ray from the Eocene epoch. It in honor of Amamria, Tunisia, a hamlet near the type locality whose people were hospitable to researchers. It contains a single species, A. heni. It was named for Mr. Kamel Hen, who provided help during the field season in which this species was first collected. It is known from the Bartonian-aged Souar-Fortuna formations of Tunisia and possibly the late Eocene of Egypt.[1] It is similar to many early devil rays.[2]
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References
edit- ^ Adnet, Sylvain; Marivaux, Laurent; Cappetta, Henri; Charruault, Anne-lise; El Mabrouk, Essid; Jiquel, Suzanne; Khayati Ammar, Hayet; Marandat, Bernard; Marzougui, Wissem; Merzeraud, Gilles; Temani, Rim (2020). "Diversity and renewal of tropical elasmobranchs around the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in North Africa: New data from the lagoonal deposits of Djebel el Kébar, Central Tunisia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 23 (2): a38. doi:10.26879/1085.
- ^ Adnet, Sylvain; Cappetta, Henri; Guinot, Guillaume; Notarbartolo Di Sciara, Giuseppe (2012). "Evolutionary history of the devilrays (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) from fossil and morphological inference". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (1): 132–159. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00844.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
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