Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013
See also Cappetta 1980, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Maisch et al. 2014, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, 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: Abdounia africana Abdounia beaugei Abdounia enniskilleni Abdounia finalis Abdounia mesetae Abdounia minutissima Abdounia recticonia Abdounia richteri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (2), Chile (1), Egypt (23), Jordan (1), Morocco (9), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (34: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (7), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 103 collections including 141 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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