Scyliorhinus Blainville 1816 (cat shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Alternative spelling: Scylliorhinus

Synonyms: Catulus Smith 1837, Cephaloscyllium Gill 1861, Halaelurus Gill 1861, Poroderma Smith 1837

Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024

See also Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1977, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cappetta and Odin 2001, Case 1981, Casier 1946, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Guinot et al. 2013, Halter 1995, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kocsis 2007, Maisch et al. 2014, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Regan 1908, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood and Mitchell 1999, Underwood and Ward 2008 and Villafaña et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Megascyliorhinus, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Premontreinae, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina

Subtaxa: Scyliorhinus alaformis Scyliorhinus antiquus Scyliorhinus arlingtonensis Scyliorhinus biauriculatus Scyliorhinus biddlei Scyliorhinus brumarivulensis Scyliorhinus cabindensis Scyliorhinus coupatezi Scyliorhinus distans Scyliorhinus dubius Scyliorhinus elongatus Scyliorhinus entomodon Scyliorhinus fossilis Scyliorhinus luypaertsi Scyliorhinus minutissimus Scyliorhinus monsaugustus Scyliorhinus muelleri Scyliorhinus pattersoni Scyliorhinus ptychtus Scyliorhinus reyndersi Scyliorhinus sulcidens Scyliorhinus taylorensis Scyliorhinus trifolius Scyliorhinus weemsi Scyliorhinus woodwardi

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Libya (1 collection), United States (1: North Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (2), Malta (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), United States (2: California, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (1), Jordan (2), Morocco (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (15), United States (3: Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina), Western Sahara (2)

• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Morocco (9), Niger (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (4), France (7), Germany (1), Israel (2), Jordan (1), Lebanon (4), Lithuania (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (3), the United Kingdom (10), United States (6: Kansas, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 120 collections including 164 occurrences

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