Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Parent taxon: Hybodontoidea according to C. Pla et al. 2013
See also Chrzastek 2008, Delsate 2003, Delsate and Duffin 1993, Ginter et al. 2010, Herman 1977, Johns 1997, Kindlimann 1990, Murry 1989, Mutter 1998, Nelson et al. 2016 and Yamagishi 2004
Sister taxa: Acrorhizodus, Asteracanthus semiverrucosus, Asteracanthus verrucosus, Diablodontus, Distobatidae, Homalodontidae, Hybodontidae, Hybodus strictus, Lamarodus, Lissodus, Lonchidiidae, Polyacrodontidae, Trichorhipis, Tristychiidae
Subtaxa: Acrodontinae Acrodus Palaeobates Sinacrodus Strophodus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene of Australia (2)
• Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Colombia (5), Egypt (9), France (4), Lithuania (3), Mali (1), Niger (4), the Russian Federation (1), Sudan (1), Switzerland (2), Thailand (1), Tunisia (2), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of Belgium (6), China (1), France (8), Germany (1), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (2), Luxembourg (3), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (16)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Madagascar (3)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (7: British Columbia), China (1), France (11), Germany (17), Hungary (2), India (6), Italy (2), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Norway (1), Pakistan (3), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (13), Switzerland (18), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (14: Arizona, California, Nevada)
• Permian of China (3), Hungary (1), Iran (3), Japan (1), Latvia (2), United States (6: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of United States (1: Kentucky)
Total: 227 collections including 277 occurrences