Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2013
See also Kriwet et al. 2009, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002, Underwood 2004, Underwood and Mitchell 1999 and Underwood and Ward 2008
Sister taxa: Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Megascyliorhinus, Microscyliorhinus, Pachyscyllium, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Premontreinae, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina
Subtaxa: Pteroscyllium hermani Pteroscyllium lamranii Pteroscyllium nolfi Pteroscyllium ornatum Pteroscyllium signeuxi Pteroscyllium speetonensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Germany (2), Israel (2), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), Morocco (7), Syria (2), the United Kingdom (22), United States (1: Iowa)
Total: 39 collections including 41 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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