Plicatoscyllium
''Plicatoscyllium'' is an extinct genus of Orectolobiformes, orectolobiform shark known from deposits of Late Cretaceous age in France, Jordan, the Netherlands, Syria and the United States. Remains tentatively referrable to the genus from Cenozoic deposits have been discovered in Saudi Arabia. The genus was named by G.R. Case and H. Cappetta in 1997G. R. Case and H. Cappetta. 1997. A new Selachian Fauna from the Late Maastrichtian of Texas (Upper Cretaceous/Navarroan; Kemp Formation) . ''Münchner Geowiss. Abh.'' (A)(34):131–189 to refer to species formerly considered species of ''Ginglymostoma'', namely the species ''G. gharbii'', ''G. youssoufiaense'' and ''G. minutum''. Furthermore, the species ''G. globidens'' was considered to possibly represent a species of ''Plicatyoscyllium''. Furthermore, the species of ''G. lehneri'' and ''G. rugosum'' were synonymized with ''P. minutum'', which would have been a wide-ranging species known from western Africa, eastern North America a ...
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