Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Parent taxon: Hemiscylliidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2023
See also Bourdon et al. 2011, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cappetta and Corral 1999, Casier 1958, Cicimurri 2003, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Delsate 2003, Guinot et al. 2013, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Peng et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Tabuce et al. 2005, Underwood and Mitchell 1999, Werner 1989 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Adnetoscyllium, Almascyllium, Cirrhoscyllium, Folipistrix, Hemiscyllium, Palaeobrachaelurus, Pseudospinax
Subtaxa: Chiloscyllium broennimanni Chiloscyllium frequens Chiloscyllium greeni Chiloscyllium meraense Chiloscyllium mereretiae Chiloscyllium missouriense Chiloscyllium missouriensis Chiloscyllium salvani Chiloscyllium vulloi
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Egypt (3 collections), Morocco (5), Senegal (2), Togo (1), Western Sahara (1)
• Paleocene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (5: Alberta), Egypt (1), France (12), Germany (2), Israel (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Peru (1), Spain (1), Sweden (5), Syria (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (20: Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Luxembourg (1)
Total: 81 collections including 85 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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