Scyliorhinotheca

Scyliorhinotheca; Temporal range: Late Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	Carcharhiniformes
Family:	Scyliorhinidae
Genus:	†Scyliorhinotheca; Kiel, Peckmann & Simon, 2012
Species:	†S. goederti
Binomial name
	†Scyliorhinotheca goederti; Kiel, Peckmann & Simon, 2012

Scyliorhinotheca is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish first described in 2012 from the state of Washington. It contains only one species, Scyliorhinotheca goederti.[1]

References

Steffen Kiel, Jörn Peckmann and Klaus Simon (2012). "Catshark egg capsules from a Late Eocene deep-water methane-seep deposit in western Washington State, USA". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0077.

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[1] Steffen Kiel, Jörn Peckmann and Klaus Simon (2012). "Catshark egg capsules from a Late Eocene deep-water methane-seep deposit in western Washington State, USA". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0077.