Galeorhinus de Blainville and Prévost 1816 (school shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

Alternative spelling: Geleorhinus

Synonym: Eugaleus Gill 1864

Parent taxon: Triakidae according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019

See also Case 1981, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Long and Stilwell 2000, Marramà et al. 2018, Marramà et al. 2018, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2006, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Weiler 1938, White 1926 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998

Sister taxa: Archaeotriakis, Galeorhininae, Hypogaleus, Mustelus, Pachygaleus, Palaeogaleus, Palaeotriakis, Paratriakis, Squatigaleus, Triakinae, Triakini, Triakis, Xystrogaleus

Subtaxa: Eugaleus falconeri Eugaleus latus Galeorhinus cuvieri Galeorhinus duchaussoisi Galeorhinus falconeri Galeorhinus galeus Galeorhinus girardoti Galeorhinus goncalvesi Galeorhinus hannibali Galeorhinus huberensis Galeorhinus louisi Galeorhinus mesetaensis Galeorhinus minor Galeorhinus minutissimus Galeorhinus pulchellus Galeorhinus ypresiensis

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Type: Squalus galeus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (3: California collections)

• Pliocene of Peru (1), United States (2: California)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene of Chile (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Germany (1), India (1), Japan (1), Malta (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (1), Poland (2), Portugal (2), South Africa (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)

• Oligocene of Hungary (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (3), United States (2: California, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Barbados (1), India (4), Italy (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), Nigeria (2), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (17: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene of Morocco (4), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Cretaceous of France (2), Israel (1), Sweden (3), United States (10: Maryland, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas)

Total: 114 collections including 126 occurrences

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