Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1992. Carcharhiniformes nouveaux (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) de l'Ypresien du Bassin de Paris. Geobios 25(2):639-646
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2025
See also Cappetta 1992, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Mollen 2008, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997 and Popov et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Apristurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Cephaloscyllium, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Pentanchinae, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina
Subtaxa: Pachyscyllium Premontreia Stenoscyllium
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (2 collections), Spain (4)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Czechia (2), France (13), Germany (2), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (5)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (5), Egypt (3), France (10), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (7), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (10), United States (8: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of France (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (7), Morocco (8), Togo (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 107 collections including 119 occurrences