Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Parent taxon: Hemigaleidae according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
See also Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Compagno 2005, Kocsis 2007, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Purdy et al. 2001, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Chaenogaleus, Hemigaleus, Hemipristis, Moerigaleus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Libya (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Miocene of Hungary (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), United States (1: North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of India (1), Western Sahara (2)
Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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