Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Alternative spelling: Paleobrachselurus
Full reference: D. Thies. 1983. Jurazeitliche Neoselachier aus Deutschland und S-England (Jurassic neoselachians from German and S-England). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 58:1-116
Parent taxon: Hemiscylliidae according to C. J. Underwood 2004
See also Batchelor and Ward 1990, Delsate 2003, Kriwet 2003, Sepkoski 2002, Thies 1983, Thies 1989, Underwood et al. 1999 and Underwood and Ward 2004
Sister taxa: Acanthoscyllium, Adnetoscyllium, Almascyllium, Chiloscyllium, Cirrhoscyllium, Folipistrix, Hemiscyllium, Notoramphoscyllium, Pseudospinax
Subtaxa: Palaeobrachaelurus alisonae Palaeobrachaelurus aperizostus Palaeobrachaelurus mitchelli Palaeobrachaelurus mussetti
Type: Palaeobrachaelurus bedfordensis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (3), Luxembourg (5), Poland (3), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 17 collections including 19 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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