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 VillafaƱa et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Crassonotidae, Heptranchidae, Hexanchidae, Hexanchoidei, Komoksodontidae, Orthacodidae, Paraheptranchias, Paranotidanus

Subtaxa: Chlamydoselachus Dykeius Rolfodon

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (4 collections)

• Pliocene of Italy (2)

• Miocene of Ecuador (1), Germany (1), Japan (3)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1)

• Eocene of Denmark (1), France (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Austria (6), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (1), New Zealand (3)

• Cretaceous of Angola (2), Antarctica (2), Austria (2), Canada (2: British Columbia), Germany (1), Japan (7)

Total: 44 collections including 55 occurrences

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