Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Alternative spelling: Scylliorhinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1992, Case 1981, Casier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kriwet et al. 2009, Landau et al. 2025, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Malyshkina 2006, Nelson et al. 2016, Popov et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2002, Underwood 2006, Underwood and Ward 2004 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Altusmirus, Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Fornicatus, Galeocerdonidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Apristurus Cadiera Casieria Cephaloscyllium Crassescyliorhinus Cretascyliorhinus Foumtizia Haploblepharus Megascyliorhininae Microscyliorhinus Palaeoscyllium Paramaturus Parascyllium Parasymbolus Pentanchinae Platyrhizoscyllium Porodermoides Premontreinae Prohaploblepharus Proscyllium Protoscyliorhinus Pseudotriacis Pteroscylliinae Pteroscyllium Scyliorhininae Scyliorhinotheca Scyliorhinus Scylliodus Scyllium Sigmoscyllium Thiesus Thyellina
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (6 collections), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Italy (4), Libya (1), New Zealand (4), Spain (9), Tunisia (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (4), Belgium (5), Chile (5), Costa Rica (1), Czechia (2), Denmark (1), France (16), Germany (8), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (3), Malta (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (9), Panama (1), Poland (2), Portugal (9), Slovakia (5), Spain (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene of Belgium (4), France (1), Germany (5), New Zealand (1), United States (5: Alabama, California, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Belgium (7), Chile (2), Denmark (2), Egypt (12), France (14), Jordan (3), Morocco (8), Namibia (1), the Netherlands (15), the Russian Federation (3), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (16), United States (13: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of France (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Angola (1), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Denmark (3), France (7), Morocco (13), Niger (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), Togo (1), United States (3: New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Belgium (8), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (22), Germany (15), Israel (2), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (5), Lithuania (2), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (3), Poland (1), South Atlantic (1), Spain (1), Sweden (10), Syria (2), the United Kingdom (46), United States (9: Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Germany (3), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 429 collections including 747 occurrences