Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. A. VillafaƱa et al. 2020
See also Antunes and Balbino 2003, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Isurolamna, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Serratolamnidae
Subtaxa: Alopias Paranomotodon Vulpecula
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Peru (1 collection), United States (3: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Libya (1), Peru (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), France (3), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Japan (2), Malta (4), Mexico (2), Panama (5), Peru (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), United States (8: Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (2), France (1), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), Egypt (17), India (1), Jordan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina), Western Sahara (2)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (2), Israel (1), Japan (1), Spain (1), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (20: Delaware, Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas)
Total: 126 collections including 137 occurrences