Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Alternative combination: Palaeoscyllium striatum
Full reference: C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2008. Sharks of the order Carcharhiniformes from the British Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian (Upper Cretaceous). Palaeontology 51:509-536
Belongs to Sigmoscyllium according to G. Guinot et al. 2013
See also Underwood and Ward 2008
Sister taxon: Sigmoscyllium acuspidatum
Type specimen: BMNH P.66383, a tooth. Its type locality is Winterbourne, upper horizon, which is in a Campanian carbonate chalk in the Newhaven Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (7 collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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