Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Parent taxon: Sphyrnidae according to S. Adnet et al. 2020
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Case 1981, Casier 1958, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Gibbes 1847, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Landini et al. 2019, Leriche 1942, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2006, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Villafaña et al. 2020, White 1926, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Cestrorhinus, Eusphyra, Platysqualus, Reniceps, Sphyra, Sphyrichthys, Sphyrnias, Zygaena
Subtaxa: Sphyrna americana Sphyrna denticulata Sphyrna gibbesii Sphyrna gilmorei Sphyrna guinoti Sphyrna itoriensis Sphyrna laevissima Sphyrna lata Sphyrna lewini Sphyrna magna Sphyrna media Sphyrna subserrata Sphyrna tortilis Sphyrna zygaena
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Japan (1), United States (3: California, Georgia)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Libya (1), South Africa (1), United States (3: California, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Brazil (5), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (7), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (5), Japan (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Oman (1), Panama (12), Peru (4), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (11: California, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (1), United States (3: California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (2), Egypt (1), India (1), Nigeria (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), United States (12: Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 120 collections including 155 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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