| Scyliorhinus Temporal range: Late Albian to present
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| Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
| Genus: | Scyliorhinus Blainville, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Squalus canicula | |
Scyliorhinus is a genus of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae. This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous period, late Albian age to the Pliocene epoch.[2][3]
- ^ Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10.
- ^ Fossilworks: Scyliorhinus at Paleobiology Database.
- ^ Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004). Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives.