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Scyliorhinus

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	34663	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34663

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Selachii : Scyllidae : Scyliorhinus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii
-	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
-	Selachii
family	Scyllidae
genus	Scyliorhinus	Blainville 1816

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Scyliorhinus	genus	belongs to Scylliorhininae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Scyliorhinus	genus	belongs to Scyliorhinidae	stated without evidence	Regan, 1908
Scyliorhinus	genus	belongs to Carcharhiniformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Scyliorhinus	genus	belongs to Scyliorhinidae	stated without evidence	Maisch et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (5.9%)

First Recorded Appearance

136 - 130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Selachii)

Diet

carnivore (based on Selachii)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Scyliorhinus distans species	listed (PBDB)	12	37.2 Ma Eocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Scyliorhinus fossilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Scyliorhinus gilberti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	16	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	38.0 Ma Eocene
Scyliorhinus minutissimus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	7	56.0 Ma Paleocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Scyliorhinus pattersoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Scyliorhinus subulidens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Scylliorhinus gracilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scylliorhinus planidens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scylliorhinus rugosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scyllium angustum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scyllium antiquum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scyllium curtirostre ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scyllium dubium ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scyllium elongatum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scyllium tumidens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
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

Year	Name and Author
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

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1, 1-613

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Regan C. T. (1908) A synopsis of the sharks of the family Scyliorhinidae, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6, 453-465

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Cassier F. C. (1966) Faune Ichthyologique du London Clay, 1-496

Case G. R. (1981) Late Eocene Selachians from South-Central Georgia, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 176 Lfg. 1-3, 52-79

Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244

Bendix-Almgreen S. E. (1983) Carcharodon megalodon from the Upper Miocene of Denmark, with comments on elasmobranch tooth enameloid: coronoi'n, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 32, 1-32

Maisch H. M., Becker M. A., et al (2014) Chondrichthyans from the Tallahatta-Lisbon Formatino contact (Middle Eocene), Silas, Choctaw County, Alabama, Paludicola 9 4, 183-2009

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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