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Cretoxyrhinidae
Taxonomy
Cretoxyrhinidae was named by Glikman (1958). Its type is Cretoxyrhina.
It was assigned to Odontaspidoidea by Herman (1977); to Orectoloboidei by Case (1978); to Euselachii by Case (1979); to Squatinoidei by Case and Schwimmer (1988); and to Lamniformes by Biddle (1993), Shimada (1997), Siverson (1997), Peng et al. (2001), Underwood (2006), Cahuzac et al. (2007), Bogan and Agnolin (2010), Nelson et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Odontaspidoidea by Herman (1977); to Orectoloboidei by Case (1978); to Euselachii by Case (1979); to Squatinoidei by Case and Schwimmer (1988); and to Lamniformes by Biddle (1993), Shimada (1997), Siverson (1997), Peng et al. (2001), Underwood (2006), Cahuzac et al. (2007), Bogan and Agnolin (2010), Nelson et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1958 | Cretoxyrhinidae Glikman p. 569 |
| 1977 | Cretoxyrhinidae Herman p. 166 |
| 1978 | Cretoxyrhinidae Case p. 191 |
| 1979 | Cretoxyrhinidae Case p. 83 |
| 1988 | Cretoxyrhinidae Case and Schwimmer p. 295 |
| 1993 | Cretoxyrhinidae Biddle p. 205 |
| 1997 | Cretoxyrhinidae Shimada p. 275 |
| 1997 | Cretoxyrhinidae Siverson p. 459 |
| 2001 | Cretoxyrhinidae Peng et al. p. 5 |
| 2006 | Cretoxyrhinidae Underwood p. 234 |
| 2007 | Cretoxyrhinidae Cahuzac et al. p. 16 |
| 2010 | Cretoxyrhinidae Bogan and Agnolin |
| 2016 | Cretoxyrhinidae Nelson et al. p. 64 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Cretoxyrhinidae Glikman 1958
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G. †Acrolamna Zhelezko 1990
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†Acrolamna acuminata Agassiz 1835
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Invalid names: Lamna petrocoriensis Coquand 1859 [synonym], Otodus oxyrhinoides Sauvage 1872 [synonym]
G. †Cretoxyrhina Glikman 1958
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†Cretoxyrhina denticulata Glickman 1957
†Cretoxyrhina vraconensis Zhelezko 2000
G. †Plicatolamna Herman 1977
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2023, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Aptian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 121.40000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (173 total)
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Aptian | United Kingdom (England) | Cretoxyrhinidae indet. (213576 213578) Plicatolamna sp. (235313) | |
| Early/Lower Albian | France (Champagne-Ardenne) | Lamna acuminata, Oxyrhina mantelli (55335) | |
| Albian | Japan (Iwate) | Plicatolamna macrohiza (210763) | |
| Albian | Australia (Western Australia) | Cretoxyrhinidae indet. (90688) | |
| Late/Upper Albian | Poland | Cretoxyrhina vraconensis (213375) | |
| Late/Upper Albian | Ukraine | Cretoxyrhina vraconensis (214239 214241 214242) | |
| Late/Upper Albian | USA (Texas) | Cretoxyrhina vraconensis (215565) | |
| Late/Upper Albian - Cenomanian | USA (Texas) | Cretoxyrhina sp. (235811) | |
| Late/Upper Albian - Cenomanian | Russian Federation (Belgorod) | Cretoxyrhina sp. (32314) | |
| Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian | Kazakhstan | Cretoxyrhina denticulata (175010) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Sweden (Skåne) | Cretoxyrhina mantelli (74335 102883) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Sweden | Cretoxyrhina mantelli (214340) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | USA (New Jersey) | Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213749) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Belgium | Cretoxyrhina acuminata (242027 242030) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Germany | Isurus mantelli (241700) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Sweden (Skane) | Cretoxyrhina mantelli (106411) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Cretoxyrhina mantelli (275653) | |
| Campanian - Maastrichtian | Angola | Cretoxyrhinidae indet. (275711) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Mexico (Guerrero) | Cretoxyrhina mantelli (7461) | |
| Maastrichtian | Congo-Kinshasa | Oxyrhina mantelli (242372) | |