Superfamily Isuroidea Glikman 1964 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Odontaspidida

Full reference: L. S. Glikman. 1964. Podklass Elasmobranchii. Akulovye. Osnovy Paleontologii. Tom 11: Beschelyustnye, Ryby 196-237

Parent taxon: Odontaspidida according to J. Herman 1977

See also Glikman 1964

Sister taxa: Anacoracoidea, Odontaspidoidea, Scapanorhynchoidea

Subtaxa: Isuridae Lamiostomatidae

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Aruba (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Italy (1), South Africa (1)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)

• Neogene of North Pacific (2), South Pacific (4), United States (1: Hawaii)

• Miocene of Australia (6), Czechia (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (7: Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Angola (2), Australia (3), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2)

• Eocene of Angola (5), Australia (1), Barbados (2), Egypt (2), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey), Uzbekistan (2)

• Paleocene of United States (2: Montana, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of France (6), Poland (1), Switzerland (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 76 collections including 91 occurrences

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