Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013
See also Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Glikman 1964, Herman 1977 and Popov et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Carcharoides, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Isurolamna, Isurus, Lamna, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Selanonius, Uyenoa
Subtaxa: Macrorhizodus falcata Macrorhizodus praecursor
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: Alabama collection)
• Eocene of Argentina (3), Egypt (22), Iran (1), the Russian Federation (2), Senegal (1), Spain (1), United States (7: Alabama), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
Total: 42 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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