''Pucabatis'' is a prehistoric genus of
ray
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* Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
* Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin
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whose fossils are found in rocks dating from the
Maastrichtian stage. The
type
Type may refer to:
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* Typing, producing text via a keyboard, typewriter, etc.
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and only species is ''P. hoffstetteri''. Fossils of ''Pucabatis'' have been found in the
El Molino Formation
The El Molino Formation is a Maastrichtian geologic formation pertaining to the Puca Group of central Bolivia. The formation comprises fine-grained sandstones and sandy limestones with stromatolites deposited in a shallow marine to lacustrine env ...
of
Bolivia
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and the
Bagua Formation of
Peru.
[''Pucabatis'']
at Fossilworks
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See also
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Flora and fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were Extant taxon, extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended from 72.1 to 66 million years before present. This was the last time pe ...
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List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes)
This list of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the class chondrichthyes ''and'' are known from the fossil record. This list excludes purely vernacul ...
References
Rajiformes
Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera
Cretaceous cartilaginous fish
Maastrichtian life
Prehistoric fish of South America
Cretaceous Bolivia
Fossils of Bolivia
Cretaceous Peru
Fossils of Peru
Fossil taxa described in 1975
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