Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Case 1979, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Ebersole et al. 2019, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Long 1992, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Nelson et al. 2016 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Isurolamna, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Serratolamnidae
Subtaxa: Anomotodon Mitsukurina Rhinognathus Scapanorhynchus Striatolamia Woellsteinia
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Angola (1 collection)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1), United States (5: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (6), Germany (1), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (3), Egypt (2), France (2), Germany (2), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Niger (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (6), United States (28: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (5), Kazakhstan (2), New Zealand (3), Sweden (2), Togo (1), United States (7: Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Austria (6), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Egypt (6), France (19), Germany (5), India (1), Israel (4), Italy (1), Japan (9), Jordan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (3), Lithuania (4), Mexico (3), Morocco (2), New Zealand (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sweden (6), Switzerland (1), Syria (7), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (99: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississipii, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 331 collections including 385 occurrences