Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta and D. J. Ward. 1977. A new Eocene shark from the London Clay of Essex. Palaeontology 20(1):195-202
Parent taxon: Scyliorhinidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013
See also Cappetta and Ward 1977, Cione 1986, Keyes 1984, Purdy et al. 2001 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Abdounia, Apristurus, Bythaelurus, Cadiera, Casieria, Crassescyliorhinus, Cretascyliorhinus, Foumtizia, Haploblepharus, Megascyliorhininae, Microscyliorhinus, Palaeoscyllium, Paramaturus, Parascyllium, Parasymbolus, Platyrhizoscyllium, Porodermoides, Premontreinae, Prohaploblepharus, Proscyllium, Protoscyliorhinus, Pseudotriacis, Pteroscylliinae, Pteroscyllium, Scyliorhininae, Scyliorhinotheca, Scyliorhinus, Scylliodus, Scyllium, Sigmoscyllium, Thiesus, Thyellina
Subtaxa: Megascyliorhinus cooperi Megascyliorhinus miocaenicus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), New Zealand (4), Tunisia (1)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), France (3), New Zealand (9), Portugal (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Chile (2), Egypt (4), Jordan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 43 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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