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Male Heliobatis radians fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	Myliobatiformes
Family:	Dasyatidae
Genus:	Heliobatis
Species:	H. radians
Binomial name
*Heliobatis radians* Marsh, 1877
Synonyms
Dasyatis species Haseman, 1912 Palaeodasybatis discus Fowler, 1947 Xiphotrygon acutidens Cope, 1879 Xyphotrygus species Romer, 1971

Heliobatis is an extinct genus of stingray. At present the genus contains the single species Heliobatis radians.

The fossil is found in the early Eocene, Wasatchian stage, Fossil Lake deposits. Fossil Lake is part of the Green River Formation in southwest Wyoming.

Heliobatis is one of only two known rays to have been found in the Green River formation. The other species, Asterotrygon maloneyi, was recognized and described in 2004.

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