†family Cardabiodontidae Siverson 1999 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cardabiodontidae

Full reference: M. Siverson. 1999. A new large lamniform shark from the uppermost Gearle Siltstone (Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous) of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 90:49-66

Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016

See also Cook et al. 2010, Siverson 1999 and Underwood 2006

Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae, Truyolsodontidae, Xiphodolamiidae

Subtaxa: Cardabiodon Dwardius

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Type: Cardabiodon

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (3 collections), Belgium (1), Canada (2: Alberta), France (5), India (2), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: Kansas, Montana, Nebraska)

Total: 28 collections including 30 occurrences

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