Family Parascylliidae Gill 1862 (collared carpetshark)
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Parascylliidae
Alternative spelling: Parascyllidae
Parent taxon: Parascyllioidei according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Purdy et al. 2001 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Pararhincodon
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (1 collection), Egypt (4), France (14), Jordan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), France (10), Germany (4), Lebanon (1), Sweden (9), the United Kingdom (14), United States (3: Colorado, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 67 collections including 71 occurrences