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Abdounia enniskilleni

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Taxonomy
Scyliorhinus enniskilleni was named by White (1956). Its type specimen is BMNH P. 30634, a tooth, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is The Rocks, which is in a Priabonian foreshore claystone in the Yazoo Formation of Alabama.

It was recombined as Abdounia enniskilleni by Maisch et al. (2014) and Ebersole et al. (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1956Scyliorhinus enniskilleni White pp. 128-130 figs. Figs. 1-19, Plate 11, Fig. 1
1981Scyliorhinus enniskilleni Case p. 62
1981Scyliorhinus enniskilleni Thurmond and Jones p. 60
2014Abdounia enniskilleni Maisch et al. p. 191
2019Abdounia enniskilleni Ebersole et al. p. 84

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii()
NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderGaleomorphiiCompagno 1973
orderCarcharhiniformesCompagno 1973
familyScyliorhinidaeGill 1862
genusAbdounia
speciesenniskilleni()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Abdounia enniskilleni White 1956
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Diagnosis
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