†Acanthoscyllium Cappetta 1980 (carpet shark)
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Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Les sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. I: requins. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 168:69-148
Parent taxon: Hemiscylliidae according to H. Cappetta 1980
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Adnetoscyllium, Almascyllium, Chiloscyllium, Cirrhoscyllium, Folipistrix, Hemiscyllium, Palaeobrachaelurus, Pseudospinax
Subtaxa: Acanthoscyllium sahelalmae
Type: Scyllium sahelalmae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), Lebanon (3), Sweden (4)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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