Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Parent taxon: Galeocerdidae according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019
See also Ameghino 1901, Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Bohm 1926, Cantalice et al. 2019, Case 1981, Casier 1958, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Compagno 2005, Davis 1888, Deraniyagala 1969, Gibbes 1847, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Landini et al. 2019, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1942, Maisch et al. 2014, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2006, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Villafaña et al. 2020, White 1926 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Galeocerdo acanthodon Galeocerdo aduncus Galeocerdo alabamensis Galeocerdo clarkensis Galeocerdo cuvier Galeocerdo davisi Galeocerdo denticulatus Galeocerdo eaglesomei Galeocerdo egertoni Galeocerdo gibberulus Galeocerdo latidens Galeocerdo minor Galeocerdo mixtus Galeocerdo rosaliensis Galeocerdo semilevis Galeocerdo subcrenatus Galeocerdo tigrinus
Type: Galeocerdo tigrinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Japan (1), United States (6: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), New Zealand (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2), Mexico (1), Panama (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (6), Austria (4), Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (2), France (8), Germany (3), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (7), Madagascar (1), Malta (4), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (13), Peru (3), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (34: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Japan (2), Oman (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Egypt (17), Germany (1), India (5), Jordan (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (35: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Togo (1)
Total: 253 collections including 289 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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