Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Synonym: Pristiurus Bonaparte 1834
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to C. T. Regan 1908
See also Agassiz 1835, Bohm 1926, Jordan 1963, Klug 2008, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Abdounia, 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: Galeus latus Galeus porrectus Galeus recticonus Galeus robustus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Portugal (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Italy (1)
• Miocene of Japan (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (4)
• Eocene of Namibia (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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