Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Parent taxon: Hemiscylliidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2023
See also Adnet et al. 2020, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta et al. 2019, Case 1991, Case et al. 2015, Jordan 1963, Kriwet et al. 2007, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999
Sister taxa: Adnetoscyllium, Almascyllium, Chiloscyllium, Cirrhoscyllium, Folipistrix, Palaeobrachaelurus, Pseudospinax
Subtaxa: Hemiscyllium bruxelliensis Hemiscyllium hermani Hemiscyllium ocellatus Hemiscyllium tailledisensis
Type: Squalus ocellatus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Egypt (1 collection), France (2), Morocco (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Austria (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (2), Jordan (2), Morocco (1), Spain (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Mississippi, New Jersey)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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