Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Alternative combinations: Brachaelurus greeni, Mesiteia greeni
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1973. Selachians from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 47:504-514
Belongs to Chiloscyllium according to C. J. Underwood and S. F. Mitchell 1999
See also Cappetta 1973, Cappetta and Case 1999, Herman 1977 and Müller and Diedrich 1991
Sister taxa: Chiloscyllium broennimanni, Chiloscyllium frequens, Chiloscyllium meraense, Chiloscyllium mereretiae, Chiloscyllium missouriense, Chiloscyllium missouriensis, Chiloscyllium salvani, Chiloscyllium vulloi
Type specimen: SDK21, a tooth. Its type locality is SE of Hot Springs, which is in a Turonian marine sandstone in the Carlile Shale Formation of South Dakota.
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (3 collections), United States (9: Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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