Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2025
See also Cappetta 1992
Sister taxa: Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Premontreinae, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina
Subtaxa: Megascyliorhinus
Type: Megascyliorhinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), New Zealand (4), Tunisia (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), France (3), New Zealand (9), Portugal (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Chile (2), Egypt (7), Jordan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 47 collections each including a single occurrence