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, Reihe A, Geologie und Paläontologie 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 antiquum Plicatoscyllium derameei Plicatoscyllium gharbii Plicatoscyllium globidens Plicatoscyllium lehneri Plicatoscyllium minutum Plicatoscyllium youssoufiaense
Type: Plicatoscyllium derameei
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of China (1 collection)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Belgium (6), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (2), Jordan (4), Mali (1), Morocco (16), the Netherlands (1), Spain (2), Syria (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (22: Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 68 collections including 79 occurrences
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