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| Myliobatis bothriodon Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Myliobatidae |
| Genus: | Myliobatis |
| Species: | †M. bothriodon
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| Binomial name | |
| †Myliobatis bothriodon White, 1926
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Myliobatis bothriodon is a species of extinct eagle ray that lived for 8.2 million years.[1] It only has one occurrence, which was in Nigeria,[2] during the Eocene epoch. The specimen was found in a Lutetian marine horizon.[1]