Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Alternative combinations: Scyllium elongatum, Thyellina elongata
Synonym: Scyllium tumidens Woodward 1889
Full reference: J. D. Davis. 1887. The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria. The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series II 3:457-634
Belongs to Scyliorhinus according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2025
See also Adolfssen and Ward 2015, Cappetta 1980, Davis 1887, Feichtinger et al. 2024, Halter 1995, Herman 1977, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Underwood and Ward 2008 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Scyliorhinus alaformis, Scyliorhinus antiquus, Scyliorhinus arambourgi, Scyliorhinus arlingtonensis, Scyliorhinus biddlei, Scyliorhinus bloti, Scyliorhinus brumarivulensis, Scyliorhinus cabindensis, Scyliorhinus casieri, Scyliorhinus coupatezi, Scyliorhinus distans, Scyliorhinus dubius, Scyliorhinus entomodon, Scyliorhinus fossilis, Scyliorhinus ivagrantae, Scyliorhinus joleaudi, Scyliorhinus luypaertsi, Scyliorhinus minutissimus, Scyliorhinus monsaugustus, Scyliorhinus muelleri, Scyliorhinus ptychtus, Scyliorhinus reyndersi, Scyliorhinus sulcidens, Scyliorhinus taylorensis, Scyliorhinus tensleepensis, Scyliorhinus trifolius, Scyliorhinus verloensis, Scyliorhinus weemsi, Scyliorhinus woodwardi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Austria (2 collections), Denmark (2)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), France (4), Germany (5), Lebanon (3), Morocco (3), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 27 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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