†subfamily Premontreinae Cappetta 1992 (cat shark)

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. 2025

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, Pachyscyllium, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina

Subtaxa: Premontreia Stenoscyllium

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• MN 13 of Portugal (2 collections)

• Miocene of Panama (1), Portugal (1)

• 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: 44 collections including 49 occurrences

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