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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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