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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
| Genus: | †Scyliorhinotheca Kiel, Peckmann & Simon, 2012 |
| Species: | †S. goederti
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| †Scyliorhinotheca goederti Kiel, Peckmann & Simon, 2012
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References
edit- ^ Steffen Kiel, Jörn Peckmann and Klaus Simon (2011). "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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