Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta and D. J. Ward. 1977. A new Eocene shark from the London Clay of Essex. Palaeontology 20(1):195-202
Parent taxon: Megascyliorhininae according to M. T. Antunes and A. C. Balbino 2004
See also Cappetta and Ward 1977, Cione 1986, Keyes 1984, Otero et al. 2013, Purdy et al. 2001 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Megascyliorhinus cooperi Megascyliorhinus miocaenicus Megascyliorhinus trelewensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (3), New Zealand (4), Spain (6), Tunisia (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Chile (5), France (7), New Zealand (9), Portugal (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Chile (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (7), France (1), Jordan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 67 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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