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Scyliorhinus
Chondrichthyes - Scyllidae
Taxonomy
Scyliorhinus was named by Blainville (1816) [Sepkoski's age data: ]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Scylliorhininae.
It was corrected as Scylliorhinus by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Scylliorhininae by Hay (1902); to Scylliorhinidae by Jordan (1963); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Scyliorhinidae by Regan (1908), Cassier (1966), Case (1981), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Bendix-Almgreen (1983) and Maisch et al. (2014).
It was corrected as Scylliorhinus by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Scylliorhininae by Hay (1902); to Scylliorhinidae by Jordan (1963); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Scyliorhinidae by Regan (1908), Cassier (1966), Case (1981), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Bendix-Almgreen (1983) and Maisch et al. (2014).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1816 | Scyliorhinus Blainville p. 263 |
| 1817 | Scyllium Cuvier p. 124 |
| 1837 | Catulus Smith p. 85 |
| 1837 | Poroderma Smith p. 85 |
| 1861 | Cephaloscyllium Gill p. 467 |
| 1861 | Halaelurus Gill p. 467 |
| 1889 | Scyllium Woodward p. 340 |
| 1902 | Scylliorhinus Hay p. 310 |
| 1908 | Scyliorhinus Regan p. 453 |
| 1963 | Catulus Jordan p. 598 |
| 1963 | Cephaloscyllium Jordan p. 598 |
| 1963 | Halaelurus Jordan p. 598 |
| 1963 | Poroderma Jordan p. 598 |
| 1963 | Scylliorhinus Jordan p. 598 |
| 1963 | Scyllium Jordan p. 598 |
| 1966 | Scyliorhinus Cassier p. 65 |
| 1981 | Scyliorhinus Case p. 62 |
| 1981 | Scyliorhinus Thurmond and Jones p. 60 |
| 1983 | Scyliorhinus Bendix-Almgreen p. 2 |
| 2002 | Scyliorhinus Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2014 | Scyliorhinus Maisch et al. p. 192 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2017, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Hauterivian to the top of the MN 13 or 136.40000 to 4.90000 Ma
Collections (81 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Hauterivian | Germany | Scyllium tumidens (91586) | |
| Cenomanian | Lebanon | S. arambourgi (69119) S. bloti (69118) | |
| Middle Turonian | USA (Kansas) | S. sp. (35365) | |
| Santonian | Lebanon | S. elongatus (92241) | |
| Campanian | Sweden | S. germanicus (102883 102885) | |
| Campanian | Sweden (Skane) | S. germanicus (106411) | |
| Campanian - Maastrichtian | Israel | S. sp. (35443) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Sweden (Skåne) | S. germanicus (74334) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Sweden | S. germanicus (102886) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Wyoming) | S. tensleepensis (70455) | |
| Middle Campanian | France | S. elongatus (61353) S. germanicus (61352) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Jordan | S. sp. (65224) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Texas) | S. ivagrantae (61738) | |
| Early/Lower Paleocene | USA (New Jersey) | S. gilberti (62840) | |
| Danian | Denmark | Scyllium vincenti (89866) | |
| Selandian | Morocco | S. entomodon (133217) | |
| Thanetian | Morocco | S. sp. (71234) | |
| Thanetian | USA (New Jersey) | S. sp. (3113) | |
| Clarkforkian | USA (South Carolina) | S. sp. (15074) | |
| Ypresian | United Kingdom | S. sp. (76601) | |
| Ypresian | USA (South Carolina) | Premontreia gilberti (203258) | |
| Ypresian | United Kingdom (England) | S. gilbert, S. sp., S. minutissimus, S. biauriculatus (8050) S. minutissimus (185914) S. sp. (3260) S. sp., S. minutissimus, S. biauriculatus, S. gilberti (13299) | |
| Wasatchian | USA (Virginia) | S. gilberti (15595) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | USA (Mississippi) | S. gilberti (62890) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene | United Kingdom (England) | S. sp. (3257) S. sp., S. gilberti (3256 3258) | |
| Middle Eocene | Uzbekistan | S. gilberti (62573) | |
| Lutetian | Togo | S. sp. (32991) | |
| Lutetian | United Kingdom (England) | S. biauricalatus, S. spp., S. pattersoni, S. minutissimus, S. gilberti (41888) S. sp., S. gilberti (41994) S. sp., S. pattersoni, S. gilberti (41989 41992 41996) S. woodwardi, S. sp., S. pattersoni, S. gilberti (41998) | |
| Lutetian | Jordan | S. sp. (65226) | |
| Lutetian - Bartonian | France (Landes) | S. trifolius (161753) | |
| Bartonian | Ukraine (Kirovograd) | S. sp. (132381) | |
| Bartonian | USA (Alabama) | S. sp. (205834) | |
| Bartonian | United Kingdom (England) | S. minutissimus (42636) | |
| Priabonian | Jordan | S. sp. (32899) | |
| Priabonian | Egypt | S. sp. (145984) | |
| Priabonian | USA (Georgia) | S. gilberti (45640) | |
| Priabonian | USA (South Carolina) | Scylliorhinus sp., Premontreia gilberti (202014) | |
| Priabonian | Western Sahara | S. sp. (96686 96688) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Georgia) | S. distans (73434) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | France | S. sp. (69805) | |
| Rupelian | Germany | S. coupatezi, S. distans (95898) | |
| Chattian | USA (California) | Cephaloscyllium sp. (11601) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | USA (North Carolina) | S. distans (71660) | |
| Aquitanian - Langhian | USA (North Carolina) | S. sp. (48887) | |
| Burdigalian | Germany | S. fossilis (188985) | |
| Langhian | Netherlands | S. distans (45505) | |
| Langhian | USA (California) | S. sp., Cephaloscyllium sp. (59059) | |
| Langhian | USA (Virginia) | S. distans (79793) | |
| Langhian | France | S. distans (90354) | |
| MN 5 | Germany | S. distans (46955) | |
| MN 5 | Austria | S. distans (51002) | |
| Middle Miocene | Germany (Lower Saxony) | S. sp. (161965) | |
| Middle Miocene | India (Orissa) | S. sp. (46343) | |
| Middle Miocene | Japan (Hokuriku) | S. kasenoi (161496) | |
| Middle Miocene | Austria (Styria) | S. distans (161935) | |
| Serravallian | Japan (Hokuriku) | S. kasenoi (161497) | |
| Serravallian - Tortonian | Malta (Ras ii-Karraba) | S. sp. (161384) | |
| Badenian | Poland | S. distans (162017) | |
| Badenian | Slovakia (Bratislava) | S. sp., S. distans (161996) | |
| Tortonian | Denmark | S. coupatezi (98312) | |
| Tortonian | USA (Virginia) | S. distans (152251) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Netherlands (Noord-Brabant) | S. sp. (162679) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Costa Rica (Limon) | S. sp., S. ambiatlanticus (162678) | |
| MN 13 | Portugal | S. joleaudi (65954) | |
| MN 13 | Portugal (Alvalade) | S. joleaudi (65955) | |
| Zanclean | Libya | S. sp. (136597) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | S. sp. (52582) |