Plicatoscyllium Case and Cappetta 1997 (nurse shark)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae

Full reference: G. R. Case and H. Cappetta. 1997. A new Selachian Fauna from the Late Maastrichtian of Texas (Upper Cretaceous/Navarroan; Kemp Formation). Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (A)(34):131-189

Parent taxon: Ginglymostomatidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2023

See also Cappetta and Corral 1999, Cappetta et al. 2019, Case and Cappetta 1997, Corral et al. 2016, Hoganson et al. 2019 and Noubhani and Cappetta 1997

Sister taxa: Cantioscyllium, Delpitoscyllium, Ganntouria, Ginglymostoma, Hologinglymostoma, Nebrius, Protoginglymostoma, Pseudoginglymostoma

Subtaxa: Plicatoscyllium derameei Plicatoscyllium gharbii Plicatoscyllium globidens Plicatoscyllium lehneri Plicatoscyllium minutum Plicatoscyllium youssoufiaense

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Type: Plicatoscyllium derameei

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), France (2), Jordan (4), Mali (1), Morocco (16), the Netherlands (1), Spain (2), Syria (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (19: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 56 collections including 65 occurrences

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