Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Alternative spelling: Scylliorhinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1992, Case 1981, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kriwet et al. 2009, Malyshkina 2006, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2002, Underwood 2006, Underwood and Ward 2004 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: 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
Type: Scyliorhinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Portugal (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (2), Libya (1), New Zealand (4), Tunisia (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Austria (2), Belgium (2), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (1), France (7), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (3), Malta (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (9), Panama (1), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Slovakia (5), United States (5: California, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), United States (3: California, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Belgium (1), Chile (3), Egypt (25), France (3), Jordan (3), Morocco (9), Namibia (1), the Russian Federation (3), Senegal (2), Togo (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (17), United States (35: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (3)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Denmark (1), Morocco (13), Niger (1), United States (3: Mississippi, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (4), Brazil (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (15), Germany (5), Israel (2), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (4), Lithuania (2), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (3), Poland (1), Spain (1), Sweden (5), Syria (2), the United Kingdom (43), United States (8: Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Germany (3), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 334 collections including 620 occurrences