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 E. V. Popov et al. 2024
See also Cappetta 1992, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Mollen 2008 and Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
Sister taxa: Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Megascyliorhinus, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, 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 (1 collection)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (6), Germany (1), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Morocco (7), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (7: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (8), United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 59 collections including 65 occurrences