Langhian rays (Chondrichthyes, Batomorphii) from Brielas, Lower Tagus Basin, Portugal
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2019.17.7Keywords:
Langhian, Chondrichthyes, Batomorphii, Brielas, PortugalAbstract
The Langhian Vc unit of Brielas section (Caparica road, Almada), in the marine Miocene of the Lower Tagus Basin (West Portugal), is rich in batoid species. In this study, batoids are represented by 149 isolated fossil teeth and a single fossil dental plate collected from a bulk sample of washed and sorted sediment. A total of 12 species belonging to the orders Rhinopristiformes, Rajiformes, Torpediniformes and Myliobatiformes were identified. All genera and some species are known to have extant representatives. Aetobatus cappettai Antunes and Balbino, 2006, is described now from Langhian material which suggests it is older than previously supposed. The biogeographic ranges, environmental constraints and behaviour of the species described in this study point out to an infralittoral environment characterized by the dominance of warm water conditions, where episodic upwelling contributed to the occurrence of different types of batoids coexisting in the same habitat.
References
Adnet, S., Cappetta, H., Guinot, G., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., 2012. Evolutionary history of the devil rays (Chondrichthyes:
Myliobatiformes) from fossil and morphological inference. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 166(1), 132-159. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00844.
Agassiz, L., 1843 (1833-1843). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. Tome III: contenant l’histoire de l’ordre des Placoïdes. Neuchatel, Suisse. Imprimerie de Petitpierre. Alroy, J., 2017. Fossilworks. Gateway to the paleobiology database. Website: www.fossilworks.org. Last accessed: version 07/2017.
Andrianavalona, T.H., Ramihangihajason, T.N., Rasoamiaramanana, A., Ward, D.J., Ali, J.R., Samonds, K.E., 2015. Miocene Shark and Batoid Fauna from Nosy Makamby (Mahajanga Basin, Northwestern Madagascar). PLOS ONE, 10(6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129444
Antunes, M.T., Jonet, S., 1970. Requins de l’Helvétien Supérieur et du Tortonien de Lisbonne. Revista da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2nd series, C, 16(1), 119-280.
Antunes, M.T., 1984. Essai de synthèse sur les mammifères du Miocêne du Portugal. Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris,
vol. d’Hommage au géologue G. Zbyszewski, 301-323.
Antunes, M.T., Legoinha, P., Nascimento, A., Pais, J., 1996. The evolution of the Lower Tagus basin (Lisbon and Setúbal Peninsula, Portugal) from Lower to early Middle Miocene. Géologie de la France, 4, 59-77.
Antunes, M.T., Balbino, A.C., Cappetta, H., 1999a. Sélaciens du Miocene terminal du Bassin d’Alvalade (Portugal). Essai de
synthèse. Ciências da Terra, 13, 115-129.
Antunes, M.T., Elderfield, H., Legoinha, P., Nascimento, A., Pais, J., 1999b. A Stratigraphic framework for the Miocene from
the Lower Tagus Basin (Lisbon, Setúbal Peninsula, Portugal). Depositional sequences, biostratigraphy and isotopic ages.
Revista de la Sociedad Geologica de España, 12(1), 3-16.
Antunes, M.T., 2000. Miocene mammals from Lisbon and geologic age. A showcase for marine-continental correlations. Ciências da Terra/Earth Sciences Journal, 14, 343-348.
Antunes, M.T., Legoinha, P., Proença Cunha, P., Pais, J., 2000. High resolution stratigraphy and miocene facies correlation in
Lisbon and Setúbal Península (Lower Tagus Basin, Portugal). Ciências da Terra, 14, 183-190.
Antunes, M.T., Balbino, A.C., 2006. Latest Miocene Myliobatids (Batoidei, Selachii) from the Alvalade Basin, Portugal. Cainozoic Research, 4(1-2), 41-4.
Antunes, M.T., Balbino, A.C., 2007. Rajiformes (Neoselachii, Batomorphii) from the Alvalade Basin, Portugal. Annales de Paléontologie, 93(1), 107-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2007.03.002
Arambourg, C., 1952. Les vertébrés fossiles des gisements de phosphates (Maroc-Algérie-Tunisie). Notes et Mémoires du
Service Géologique du Maroc, 92, 1-372, 62fig., 44pl.
Balbino, A., 1995. Seláceos (Pisces) do Miocénico Terminal da Bacia de Alvalade (Portugal): Sistemática, Ecologia, Paleoambientes, Comparação com faunas actuais. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Universidade de Évora, 200pp.
Bengtson, P., 1988. Open nomenclature. Paleontology, 31(1), 223-227.
Berg, L.S., 1937. A classification of fish-like vertebrates. Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of URSS, Biology Series, 4, 1277-1280.
Blainville, H.M., 1816. Prodrome d’une nouvelle distribution systématique du règne animal. Bulletin des Sciences, Société
Philomatique de Paris, 8, 105-112 + 121-124.
Blow, W.H., 1969. Late middle Eocene to recent planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy. In: Bronnimann, P., Renz, H.H. (eds.). Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Planktonic Microfossils, Geneva, 1, 199-422.
Bonaparte, C.L., 1838. Selachorum tabula analytica. Nuovi Annali della Science Naturali Bologna, 1(2), 195-214.
Bor, T.J., 1985. Elasmobranch teeth (vertebrata, pisces) from the Dongen formation (Eocene) in the Netherlands. Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie, 22, 73-122.
Bor, T., Reinecke, T., Verschueren, S., 2012. Palaeontos 21: Miocene Chondrichthyes from Winterswijk – Miste, the Netherlands. United Kingdom, Palaeo Publishing and Library vzw, 194pp.
Brisswalter, G., 2008. Inventaire des Élasmobranches (requins, raies, chimères) des dépôts molassiques du Sud-Luberon
(Miocène supérieur), Cabrières-d’Aigues (Vaucluse) France. Lubeon, Parc natural régional du Luberon, 100pp.
Cappetta, H., 1970. Les Sélaciens du Miocène de la région de Montpellier. Palaeovertebrata, Mémoire Extraordinaire. Montpellier, Laboratoire de Paléontologie, 139pp.
Cappetta, H., 1980. Les Sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. II. Batoïdes. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A, 168(5-6), 149-229.
Cappetta, H., 1987. Chondrichthyes II. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii, Germany, Handbook of Paleoichthyology,
Volume 3B. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 193pp.
Cappetta, H., 2012. Chondrichthyes: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii teeth. Germany, Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 3E. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 512pp.
Carrillo-Briceño, J.D., Aguilera, O.A., De Gracia, C., AguirreFernández, G., Kindlimann, R., Sánchez-Villagra, M.R., 2016. An early Neogene elasmobranch fauna from the southern Caribbean (western Venezuela). Palaeontologia Electronica, 19(2), 1-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26879/664
Case, G.R., 1980. A Selachian fauna from the Trent Formation, Lower Miocene (Aquitanian) of Eastern North Carolina. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A, 171, 75-103.
Cicimurri, D.J., Knight, J.L., 2009. Late Oligocene sharks and rays from the Chandler Bridge Formation, Dorchester County,
South Carolina, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54(4), 627-647. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2008.0077
Compagno, L., 1973. Interrelationships of living elasmobranchs. In: Greenwood, P.H., Miles, R.S., Patterson, C. (eds.). Interrelationships of Fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 53 (Supplement 1), 15-61.
Compagno, L.J., 1977. Phyletic relationships of living sharks and rays. American Zoolologist, 17(2), 303-322.
Cope, E.D., 1867. An addition to the vertebrate fauna of the Miocene period, with a synopsis of the extinct Cetacea of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 19(4), 138-157.
Cotter, J.C.B., 1956. O Miocénico marinho de Lisboa. Lisboa, Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, XXXVI (Supplement), 170pp.
Cushing, D.H., 1969. Upwelling and fish production. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, 84, 40.
Cuvier, G.L., 1816. Le Règne Animal distribué d’après son organisation pour servir de base à l’histoire naturelle des animaux et d’introduction à l’anatomie comparée. Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. Paris, Déterville, 532pp.
Cuvier, G.L., 1829. Le règne animal, distribué d’après son organisation, pour servir de base à l’histoire naturelle des animaux et d’introduction à l’anatomie comparée. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée. Tome II. Paris, Chez Déterville, 406pp.
De Buen, F., 1926. Catálogo ictiológico del Mediterráneo español y de Marruecos recopilando lo publicado sobre peces de
las costas mediterráneas y próximas del Atlántico (Mar de España). Madrid, Memorias del Instituto Español de Oceanografía (Resultados de las Campañas realizadas por acuerdos internacionales), 2, 1-221.
Delfortrie, E., 1871. Les broyeurs du Tertiaire aquitanien. Actes de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, 28, 213-236.
García, E., Balbino, A., Antunes, M.T., Ruiz, F., Civis, J., Abad, M., Toscano-Grande, A., 2014. Los Rajiformes (Chondrichthyes,
Batomorphii) del Plioceno inferior de la Formación Arenas de Huelva, suroeste de España. Ameghiniana, 51(3), 259-265. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.14.01.2014.608
Garman, S., 1908. New Plagiostomia and Chismopnea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College,
, 249-256.
Garman, S., 1913. The Plagiostomia (Sharks, Skates and Rays). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoolology at Harvard College, 36(1-2), 528pp.
Herman, J., Hovestadt-Euler, M., Hovestadt, D.C., Stehmann, M., 2000. Contributions to the study of the comparative morphology of teeth and other relevant ichthyodorulites in living supraspecific taxa of Chondrichthyan fishes. Part B: Batomorphii 4c: Order Rajiformes - Suborder Myliobatoidei - Superfamily Dasyatoidea - family Dasyatidae - Subfamily Dasyatinae - Genus: Urobatis, Subfamily Potamotrygoninae - Genus: Paratrygon, Superfamily Plesiobatoidea - Family Plesiobatidae - Genus: Plesiobatis, Superfamily Myliobatoidea - Family Myliobatidae - Subfamily Myliobatinae - Genera: Aetobatus, Aetomylaeus, Myliobatis and Pteromylaeus, Subfamily Rhinopterinae - Genus: Rhinoptera and Subfamily Mobulinae - Genera: Manta and Mobula. Addendum 1 to 4a: erratum to Genus Pteroplatytrygon. Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 70, 5-67.
Herman, J., Van Den Eeckhaut, G., 2010. Inventaire systématique des Invertebrata, Vertebrata, Plantae et Fungi des Sables de Bruxelles à Zaventem. Géominpal Belgica, Découvertes géologiques, minéralogiques et paléontologiques en Belgique,
(2), 35-65.
Hiden, H.R., 1995. Elasmobranchier (Pisces, Chondrichthyes) aus dem Badenium (Mittleres Miozän) des Steirischen Beckens (Österreich). Mitteilungen der Abteilung für Geologie und Paläontologie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, 52/53, 41-110.
Houttuyn, M., 1764-65. Natuurlyke historie of uitvoerige beschryving der dieren, planten en mineraalen, volgens het samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus. Met naauwkeurige afbeeldingen. 3 vols., (37 parts). Fishes, pts. 7 & 8; Part 7 (1764), vi (unnumbered) + 446pp; Part 8 (1765), viii (unnumbered) + 525+57 (unnumbered) + 30pp.
Huxley, T.H., 1880. On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata, and more particularly
of the Mammalia. London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 43, 649-662.
Iturralde-Vinent, M., Mora, C.L., Rojas, R., Gutiérrez, M.R., 1998. Myliobatidae (Elasmobranchii: Batomorphii) del Terciario
de Cuba. Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontologia, 8(2), 135-145.
Jaekel, O.M.J., 1894. Die eocänen Selachier vom Monte Bolca: ein Beitrag zur Morphogenie der Wirbelthiere. Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, 176pp.
Joleaud, L., 1912. Géologie et paléontologie de la Plaine du Comtat et de ses abords. Description des terrains néogènes. Montpellier, Imprimerie Montane, Sicardi et Valentin, 2, 255-285.
Jonet, S., 1968. Notes d’ichthyologie miocène portugaise. VQuelques Batoïdes. Revista da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 15(2), 233-258.
Jonet, S., 1976. Notes d’ichthyologie miocène. VII- La famille des Mobulidae au Portugal. Boletim da Sociedade Geológica de Portugal, 20(1-2), 53-64.
Jordan, D.S., Evermann, B.W., 1896. The fishes of North and Middle America, a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the isthmus of Panama. Part. I. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 47, 1-1240.
Jordan, D.S., Beal, C.H., 1913. Supplementary notes on fossil sharks. Bulletin Department of Geology, University of California, 7, 243-256.
Kosro, P.M., Huyer, A., Ramp, S.R., Smith, R.L., Chavez, F.P., Cowles, T.J., Abbott, M.R., Strub, P.T., Barber, R.T., Jessen, P., Small, L.F., 1991. The structure of the transition zone between coastal waters and the open ocean off northern California, winter and spring 1987. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 96(C8), 14707-14730.
Last, P.R., Naylor, G.J., Manjaji-Matsumoto, B.M., 2016a. A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights. Zootaxa, 4139(3), 345-368. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.2
Last, P. R., White, W., Séret, B., Naylor, G., Carvalho, M., Stehmann, M. (eds.), 2016b. Rays of the World. United States of America (USA), CSIRO Publishing, 832pp.
Laurito Mora, C., 1999. Los Seláceos fósiles de Ia localidad de Alto Guayacan (y otros ictiolitos asociados). Mioceno Superior-Plioceno Inferior de la Formación Uscari, provincia de Limón, Costa Rica. San José, Guila Imprenta, 168pp.
Laurito Mora, C., 2004. Ictiofauna de la Formación Punta Judas, Mioceno Medio, Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Brenesia, 62, 57-73.
Laurito, C., Valerio, A.L., 2008. Ictiofauna de la localidad de San Gerardo de Limoncito, Formación Curré, Mioceno Superior, cantón de Coto Brus, provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Revista Geológica de América Central, 39, 65-85.
Legoinha, P., 2001. Biostratigrafia de foraminíferos do Miocénico em Portugal. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Universidade Nova
de Lisboa, 241pp.
Legoinha, P., Flores, J.A., 2014. Refinement of the biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Belverde borehole (Setúbal
Península, Portugal) using calcareous nannofossil data. In STRATI 2013, 1119-1122.
Linné, C., 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, regnum animale, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis synonymis, locis. Stockholm (L. Salvius), ed. X., 1, 824pp.
Linck, H.F., 1790. Versuch einer Eintheilung der Fische nach den Z(a)hnen. Magazin für das Neueste aus der Physik und Naturgeschichte Gotha, 6(3), 28-38.
Martini, E., 1971. Standard Tertiary and Quaternary calcareous nannoplankton zonation. In Proc. II Planktonic Conference,
Roma 1970, Roma, Tecnoscienza, 2, 739-785.
Mein, P., 2000. La biochronologie des mammifères néogènes d’Europe. Ciências da Terra, 14, 335-342.
Müller, J., Henle, J., 1837. Gattungen der Haifische und Rochen nach einer von ihm mit Hrn. Henle unternommenen gemeinschaftlichen Arbeit über die Naturgeschichte der Knorpelfische. Berichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1837, 111-118.
Müller, J., Henle, J., 1838. Ueber die Gattungen der Plagiostomen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 4, 83-85.
Müller, J., Henle, J., 1841. Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Verlag von Veit und Companie, Berlin, Germany, XXII +200pp.
Naylor, G.J., Caira, J.N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K.A., Straube, N., Lakner, C., 2012. Elasmobranch phylogeny: a mitochondrial estimate based on 595 species. In: Carrier, J.C., Musick, J.A., Heithaus, M.R. (eds.). Biology of sharks and their relatives. United Kingdom, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 31-56.
Pais, J., Cunha, P.P., Pereira, D., Legoinha, P., Dias, R., Moura, D., da Silveira, A.B., Kullberg, J.C., González-Delgado, J.A., 2012.
The Paleogene and Neogene of western Iberia (Portugal): A Cenozoic record in the European Atlantic Domain. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences, 1-138. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22401-0.
Pollerspöck, J., Straube, N., 2018. www.shark-references.com. World Wide Web electronic publication, version 2018.
Priem, M.F., 1904. Sur les poissons fossiles des terrains tertiaires supérieurs de l’Hérault. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 4(4), 285-294.
Probst, J., 1877. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der fossilen Fische aus der Molasse von Baltringen. II: Batoidei A. Günther. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg, 33, 69-103.
Rafinesque, C.S., 1810. Indice d’ittiologia siciliana: ossia catalogo metodico dei nomi latini, italiani, e siciliani dei pesci, che
si rinvengono in Sicilia disposti secondo un metodo naturale eseguito da un appendice che contiene la descrizione di alcuni nuovi pesci siciliani. Ill Opuscolo del Signore C.S. Rafinesque Schmaltz. Giovanni del Nobolo, Messina, 70pp.
Reinecke, T., Von der Hocht, F., Gürs, K., 2008. Die Elasmobranchier des Vierlandiums, Unteres Miozän, im Nordwestdeutschen Becken aus Bohrungen und glaziofluviatilen Geröllen („Holsteiner Gestein”) der Vierlande-Feinsande (Holstein) und der Kakert-Schichten (Niederrhein). Palaeontos, 14, 1-54.
Reinecke, T., Louwye, S., Havekost, U., Moths, H., 2011. The elasmobranch fauna of the late Burdigalian, Miocene, at Werder-Uesen, Lower Saxony, Germany, and its relationship with early Miocene faunas on the North Atlantic, Central
Paratethys and Mediterranean. Palaeontos, 20, Palaeo Publishing and Library, 170pp.
Rouault, M., 1858. Note sur les vertébrés fossiles des terrains sédimentaires de l’ouest de la France. Comptes Rendus
hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences, 47, 99-103.
Sahni, A., Mehrotra, D.K., 1981. The elasmobranch fauna of coastal Miocene sediments of peninsular India. Biological Memoirs, 5(2), 83-121.
Sharma, K.M., Patnaik, R., 2013. Additional Fossil Batoids (Skates and Rays) from the Miocene Deposits of Baripada Beds, Mayurbhanj District, Orissa, India. Earth Science India, 6(4), 160-184.
Stromer, E., 1905. Die Fischreste des Mittleren und Oberen Eocäns von Ägypten. I. Teil: Die Selachier, A. Myliobatiden und Pristiden. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich–Ungarns, 18, 163-185.
Szabó, M., Kocsis, L., 2016. A new Middle Miocene selachian assemblage (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Central Paratethys (Nyirád, Hungary): implications for temporal turnover and biogeography. Geologica Carpathica, 67(6), 573-594. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geoca-2016-0036
Vialle, N., Adnet, S., Cappetta, H., 2011. A new shark and ray fauna from the Middle Miocene of Mazan, Vaucluse (southern France) and its importance in interpreting the paleoenvironment of marine deposits in the southern Rhodanian Basin. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 130(2), 241-258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13358-011-0025-4
Weigmann, S., 2016. Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a
focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88(3), 837-1037. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12874
Weigmann, S., 2017. Supplementary Table II (as of November 26, 2016) of Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity by Weigmann (2016). Journal of Fish Biology, 90, 1176-1181. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13234
White, E.I., 1926. Eocene fishes from Nigeria. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Nigeria, 10, 1-82, 20 fig., pl. 1-18.
White, E.I., 1934. Fossil fishes of Sokoto province. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Nigeria, 14, 1-78, pl. 10.
White, E.I., Moy-Thomas, J.A., 1941. Notes on the nomenclature of fossil fishes. Part III: Homonyms M-Z. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 11, 7, 395-400.
Whitley, G.P., 1936. The Australian devil ray Daemomanta alfredi (Krefft) with remarks on the superfamily Mobuloidea (Order Batoidei). Australian Zoologist, 8(3), 164-188.
Zalmout, I.S., Antar, M.S., Shafy, E.A.E., Metwally, M.H., Hatab, E.B.E., Gingerich, P.D., 2012. Priabonian sharks and rays (late
Eocene: Neoselachii) from Minqar Tabaghbagh in the Western Qattara Depression, Egypt, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 32(6), 71-90.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2019 Geologica Acta
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Copyright
Geologica Acta is the property of the UB, GEO3BCN, IDAEA and UAB. Geologica Acta must be cited for any partial or full reproduction. Papers are distributed under the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons License. This license allows anyone to reproduce and disseminate the content of the journal and even make derivative works crediting authorship and provenance and distributing possible derivative works under the same or an equivalent license.
Author Rights
Authors retain the copyright on their papers and are authorized to post them on their own web pages or institutional repositories. The copyright was retained by the journal from the year 2003 until 2009. In all cases, the complete citation and a link to the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the article must be included.
The authors can use excerpts or reproduce illustrations of their papers in other works without prior permission from Geologica Acta provided the source of the paper including the complete citation is fully acknowledged.
