Pachyscyllium Reinecke et al. 2005 (cat shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Parent taxon: Premontreinae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2025

See also Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri et al. 2022 and Reinecke and Radwanski 2015

Sister taxa: Premontreia, Stenoscyllium

Subtaxa: Pachyscyllium albigensis Pachyscyllium braaschi Pachyscyllium dachiardii Pachyscyllium distans Pachyscyllium gilberti

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Italy (2 collections), Spain (4)

• Miocene of Belgium (1), Czechia (2), France (13), Germany (1), Poland (1), Portugal (5)

• Oligocene of Germany (3), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Belgium (4), France (9), the Netherlands (7), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (5: Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of France (1)

• Paleocene of France (7), United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 80 collections including 85 occurrences

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