Chiloscyllium meraense Noubhani and Cappetta 1997 (carpet shark)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae

Full reference: A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta. 1997. Les Orectolobiformes, Carcharhiniformes et Myliobatiformes (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc (Maastrichtien-Lutétien basal). Systématique, biostratigraphie, évolution et dynamique des faunes. Palaeo Ichthyologica 8:1-327

Belongs to Chiloscyllium according to R. Tabuce et al. 2005

See also Noubhani and Cappetta 1997

Sister taxa: Chiloscyllium broennimanni, Chiloscyllium frequens, Chiloscyllium greeni, Chiloscyllium mereretiae, Chiloscyllium missouriense, Chiloscyllium missouriensis, Chiloscyllium salvani, Chiloscyllium vulloi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mera el Arech, sillon B, which is in a Ypresian marine sandstone in Morocco

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Morocco (5 collections), Senegal (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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