Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2024
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Case 1979, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Ebersole et al. 2019, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Long 1992, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Nelson et al. 2016, Popov et al. 2024, 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, Serratolamnidae
Subtaxa: Anomotodon Clerolamna Mitsukurina Rhinognathus Scapanorhynchus Striatolamia Woellsteinia
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Angola (1 collection)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1), United States (5: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina)
• 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), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Niger (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (9), 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 (6), France (23), Germany (5), India (1), Israel (4), 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: 353 collections including 414 occurrences