Pachyscyllium gilberti Casier 1946 (cat shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Alternative combinations: Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti, Premontreia gilberti, Scyliorhinus gilberti

Full reference: E. Casier. 1946. La faune ichthyologique de l'Ypresien de la Belgique. Memoires Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 104:1-267

Belongs to Pachyscyllium according to P. J. De Schutter and E. Steurbaut 2025

See also Adnet 2006, Baut and Génault 1995, Bor 1985, Cappetta 1976, Cappetta and Nolf 1981, Case et al. 2015, Casier 1946, Casier 1966, Dutheil et al. 2006, Herman 1977, Nolf 1988 and Popov et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Pachyscyllium albigensis, Pachyscyllium braaschi, Pachyscyllium dachiardii, Pachyscyllium distans

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Belgium (4 collections), 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: 46 collections each including a single occurrence

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