Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Alternative spelling: Hemiscyllidae
Parent taxon: Orectolobiformes according to G. R. Case 1991
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Carnevale et al. 2014, Delsate 2003, Jordan 1963, Kriwet 2003, Kriwet et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Tabuce et al. 2005 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: Acanthoscyllium, Akaimia, Annea, Brachaeluridae, Columbusia, Crossorhinidae, Dorsetoscyllium, Garrigascyllium, Heterophorcynus, Magistrauia, Mesiteia, Orectolobidae, Orectoloboidei, Ornatoscyllium, Parahemiscyllium, Parascyllioidei, Parasquatina, Rhincodontidae, Rhinocodontidae, Stegostomatidae
Subtaxa: Adnetoscyllium Almascyllium Chiloscyllium Cirrhoscyllium Folipistrix Hemiscyllium Palaeobrachaelurus Pseudospinax
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Egypt (4 collections), France (2), Morocco (5), Senegal (2), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: South Carolina), Western Sahara (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), Egypt (1), France (13), Germany (3), Israel (1), Jordan (2), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), Peru (1), Spain (2), Sweden (5), Syria (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (25), United States (21: Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (3), Luxembourg (6), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 136 collections including 172 occurrences