Family Chlamydoselachidae (elasmobranch)
Chondrichthyes - Hexanchiformes - Chlamydoselachidae
Parent taxon: Hexanchiformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Underwood 2006 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Crassonotidae, Eonotidanus, Heptranchidae, Hexanchidae, Hexanchoidei, Komoksodontidae, Paraheptranchias, Paranotidanus, Pseudonotidanidae, Thrinax, Weltonia
Subtaxa: Chlamydoselachus Dykeius Rolfodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Miocene of Ecuador (1), Germany (1), Japan (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (6), New Zealand (3)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (2: British Columbia), Japan (2)
Total: 19 collections including 27 occurrences