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 Antunes and Balbino 2004, 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, Maisch IV et al. 2025, 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, 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 arambourgi Scyliorhinus arlingtonensis Scyliorhinus biddlei Scyliorhinus bloti Scyliorhinus brumarivulensis Scyliorhinus burnhamensis Scyliorhinus cabindensis Scyliorhinus casieri Scyliorhinus coupatezi Scyliorhinus distans Scyliorhinus dubius Scyliorhinus elongatus Scyliorhinus entomodon Scyliorhinus fossilis Scyliorhinus ivagrantae Scyliorhinus joleaudi Scyliorhinus luypaertsi Scyliorhinus minutissimus Scyliorhinus monsaugustus Scyliorhinus muelleri Scyliorhinus ptychtus Scyliorhinus reyndersi Scyliorhinus sulcidens Scyliorhinus taylorensis Scyliorhinus tensleepensis Scyliorhinus trifolius Scyliorhinus verloensis Scyliorhinus weemsi Scyliorhinus woodwardi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Libya (1 collection), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (2), Malta (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Slovakia (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (3), France (2), Jordan (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (5), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (16), United States (3: Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Angola (1), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Denmark (2), France (1), Morocco (9), Niger (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (6), France (10), Germany (8), Israel (2), Jordan (1), Lebanon (5), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (3), the United Kingdom (11), United States (6: Kansas, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 153 collections including 195 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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