''Paramobula'' is an extinct genus of ray in the family Myliobatidae (eagle rays). The

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

was erected by Pfeil in 1981 to accommodate a

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

first described from a number of teeth with distinctive characteristics found in the

Chandler Bridge Formation The Chandler Bridge Formation is a Formation (geology), geologic formation in South Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Chattian (Late Oligocene) of the Paleogene Period (geology), period, corresponding to the Arikareean in the Nort ...

in South Carolina. The species was originally described by Cappetta in 1970 as ''Manta fragilis'' but differed significantly from other '' Manta'' species. ''Paramobula fragilis'' dates back to the late

Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but ...

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7135269 Myliobatidae Fossil taxa described in 1970