Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
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
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta 1997
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007 and Malyshkina 2006
Sister taxa: Abdounia, Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Megascyliorhinus, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Premontreinae, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina
Subtaxa: Foumtizia abdouni Foumtizia arba Foumtizia gadaensis Foumtizia poudenxae Foumtizia zhelezkoi
Type: Foumtizia abdouni
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (2 collections), the Russian Federation (2), Senegal (1), United States (2: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Morocco (10)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
Total: 18 collections including 23 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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