Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Alternative spelling: Gynglymostoma
Synonym: Acrodobatis Leidy 1877
Parent taxon: Ginglymostomatidae according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta and Case 1975, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1991, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Leriche 1942, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Tabaste 1963, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, White 1926 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Cantioscyllium, Delpitoscyllium, Ganntouria, Hologinglymostoma, Nebrius, Plicatoscyllium, Protoginglymostoma, Pseudoginglymostoma
Subtaxa: Ginglymostoma angolense Ginglymostoma botmaense Ginglymostoma chenanei Ginglymostoma cirratum Ginglymostoma delfortriei Ginglymostoma erramii Ginglymostoma khouribgaense Ginglymostoma lithuanica Ginglymostoma maroccanum Ginglymostoma obliquum Ginglymostoma pectinatum Ginglymostoma sokotoense Ginglymostoma subafricanum Ginglymostoma ypresiensis
Type: Squalus cirratus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida, Georgia collections)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), France (6), Germany (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Barbados (2), Brazil (1), Morocco (6), Nigeria (2), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), United States (6: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), India (1), Morocco (12), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Togo (1), United States (2: Arkansas, Mississippi)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Israel (1), Lithuania (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (11), Niger (1), United States (4: Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, Texas)
Total: 84 collections including 101 occurrences
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