Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Alternative combinations: Cestracion prisca, Zygaena prisca
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (15me, 16me livraison) 157-390
Belongs to Sphyrna according to C. Barrois 1874
See also Agassiz 1843, Andrianavalona et al. 2015, Antunes et al. 1981, Arambourg 1927, Betancort et al. 2016, Cappetta 1973, Cappetta and Cavallo 2006, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Cope 1875, Costa et al. 2009, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, dos Reis 2005, Eastman 1904, Everaert et al. 2019, García et al. 2011, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Landau et al. 2025, Laurito and Valerio 2008, Mora Morote 1996, Pollerspöck and Beaury 2014, Ralte et al. 2011, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Sphyrna americana, Sphyrna arambourgi, Sphyrna denticulata, Sphyrna gibbesii, Sphyrna gracile, Sphyrna guinoti, Sphyrna integra, Sphyrna itoriensis, Sphyrna laevissima, Sphyrna lata, Sphyrna lewini, Sphyrna magna, Sphyrna media, Sphyrna mokarran, Sphyrna robustum, Sphyrna tiburo, Sphyrna tortilis, Sphyrna zygaena
Subtaxa: Sphyrna prisca eastmani
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Brazil (4), Cuba (1), Egypt (1), Madagascar (1), United States (5: Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene of Angola (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Maryland)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
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