Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to E. V. Popov et al. 2025
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Case 1979, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Long 1992, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Nelson et al. 2016, Underwood 2006 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae
Subtaxa: Anomotodon Clerolamna Mitsukurina Rhinognathus Scapanorhynchus Striatolamia Woellsteinia
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Angola (1 collection)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Costa Rica (1), Czechia (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1), United States (5: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (6), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (3), Egypt (2), France (2), Germany (2), India (2), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Niger (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (9), United States (28: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (5), Kazakhstan (2), New Zealand (3), Sweden (2), Togo (1), United States (7: Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Austria (6), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Egypt (7), France (23), Germany (5), India (1), Israel (12), Italy (1), Japan (9), Jordan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (3), Lithuania (4), Mexico (3), Morocco (2), New Zealand (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sweden (6), Switzerland (1), Syria (7), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (102: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississipii, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 365 collections including 429 occurrences