†subfamily Premontreinae Cappetta 1992 (cat shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1992. Carcharhiniformes nouveaux (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) de l'Ypresien du Bassin de Paris. Geobios 25(2):639-646

Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022

See also Cappetta 1992, Ebersole et al. 2019, Mollen 2008 and Noubhani and Cappetta 1997

Sister taxa: Abdounia, Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Megascyliorhinus, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina

Subtaxa: Pachyscyllium Premontreia Stenoscyllium

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Type: Premontreia

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Miocene of Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (5), Germany (1), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Morocco (7), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (7: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (8), United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 57 collections including 63 occurrences

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