Ornatoscyllium Underwood and Ward 2004 (carpet shark)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes

Full reference: C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2004. Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501

Parent taxon: Orectolobiformes according to G. Guinot et al. 2014

See also Underwood and Ward 2004

Sister taxa: Acanthoscyllium, Akaimia, Annea, Brachaeluridae, Columbusia, Crossorhinidae, Dorsetoscyllium, Garrigascyllium, Hemiscylliidae, Heterophorcynus, Magistrauia, Mesiteia, Orectolobidae, Orectoloboidea, Orectoloboidei, Parahemiscyllium, Parascyllioidei, Parasquatina, Rhincodontidae, Rhinocodontidae, Stegostomatidae

Subtaxa: Ornatoscyllium freemani Ornatoscyllium glashoffi Ornatoscyllium pattersoni Ornatoscyllium rugasimulatum

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection)

• Jurassic of Luxembourg (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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