Chondrichthyes - Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Alternative spelling: Notidanus (Hexanchus)
Parent taxon: Hexanchidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Arambourg 1927, Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cappetta et al. 2019, Cione and Reguero 1994, Feichtinger et al. 2022, Guinot et al. 2013, Herman 1977, Itoigawa 1977, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Long et al. 1993, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Otero et al. 2013, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Siversson and Machalski 2017, Thies 1983, Underwood and Mitchell 1999, Uyeno 1972 and Uyeno et al. 1981
Sister taxa: Gladioserratus, Heptranchias, Monopterhinus, Notidanion, Notidanodon, Notidanus, Notorhynchus, Notorynchus, Protoheptranchias, Xampylodon
Subtaxa: Hexanchus agassizi Hexanchus gigas Hexanchus gracilis Hexanchus microdon Hexanchus wiedenrothi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Chile (2), Costa Rica (1), Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (1), India (1), Japan (7), Malta (2), the Netherlands (3), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), United States (3: California)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Japan (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Egypt (8), India (1), Jordan (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Virginia)
• Paleocene of Austria (2), Morocco (1), Sweden (2), United States (3: California, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Austria (4), Canada (2: British Columbia), Germany (3), Israel (5), Japan (5), Lebanon (1), Lithuania (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Syria (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 101 collections including 109 occurrences
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