Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Full reference: J. Herman. 1977. Les sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés and paléocènes de Belgique and des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale. Mémoires pour Servir a l'Explication des Cartes Géologiques et Minières de la Belgique 15:1-450
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2013
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Kriwet 1999, Sepkoski 2002, Underwood and Mitchell 1999 and Underwood and Ward 2008
Sister taxa: Apristurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Cephaloscyllium, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Pentanchinae, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Premontreinae, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina
Subtaxa: Protoscyliorhinus bettrechiensis Protoscyliorhinus lamaudi
Type: Protoscyliorhinus bettrechiensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (11 collections), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (7)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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