Chondrichthyes - Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Parent taxon: Squatinidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Biddle 1993, Bohm 1926, Cappetta 1975, Cappetta and Case 1975, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1904, Case 1981, Case et al. 2015, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Casier 1946, Cassier 1966, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Eastman 1904, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hoganson et al. 2019, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Landini et al. 2019, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Long 1992, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Otero et al. 2013, Peng et al. 2001, Purdy et al. 2001, Rees 2005, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Szabo et al. 2017, Thies 1983, Underwood 2002, Underwood 2004, Underwood and Mitchell 1999, Underwood and Schlogl 2013, Villafaña et al. 2020, White 1926, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Cretasquatina, Phorcynis, Squalraia
Subtaxa: Squatina (Cretascyllium) Squatina (Squatina) Squatina angeloides Squatina baumbergensis Squatina biforis Squatina crassa Squatina crassidens Squatina dumeril Squatina frequens Squatina gippslandicus Squatina hassei Squatina lerichei Squatina mulleri Squatina occidentalis Squatina prima Squatina speciosa Squatina squatina
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (5: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1), South Africa (2), United States (4: California, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (6), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Japan (7), Malta (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), United States (10: California, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), the Netherlands (1), United States (6: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (14), United States (9: California, Georgia, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), United States (2: California, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta), France (10), Germany (5), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (5), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (4), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (52), United States (33: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 248 collections including 257 occurrences
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