Premontreia Cappetta 1992 (cat shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Alternative spelling: Premintreia

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1992. Carcharhiniformes nouveaux (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) de l'Ypresien du Bassin de Paris. Geobios 25(2):639-646

Parent taxon: Premontreinae according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019

See also Cappetta 1992, Case et al. 2015, Malyshkina 2006, Malyshkina 2006, Mollen 2008, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Popov et al. 2025, Sepkoski 2002 and VillafaƱa et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Pachyscyllium, Stenoscyllium

Subtaxa: Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) Premontreia (Premontreia)

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Germany (1 collection), Panama (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (3), Egypt (3), France (1), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (3: Alabama, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (8), Togo (1)

Total: 26 collections including 30 occurrences

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