Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Full reference: H. Cappetta and D. Nolf. 2005. Révision de quelques Odontaspididae (Neoselachii: Lamniformes) du Paléocène et de l'Eocène du Bassin de la mer du Nord. Bulletin de l'institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 75:237-266
Parent taxon: Odontaspididae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2026
See also Cappetta and Nolf 2005, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Goedert et al. 2024, Mannering and Hiller 2008, Marramà et al. 2018, Marramà et al. 2019, Popov et al. 2025, Rana et al. 2021 and Verma 2024
Sister taxa: Araloselachus, Cenocarcharias, Eostriatolamia, Hispidaspis, Hypotodus, Jaekelotodus, Johnlonginae, Lamninae, Mennerotodus, Microcarcharias, Odontaspinae, Odontaspis, Orpodon, Palaeohypotodus, Pseudodontaspis, Pueblocarcharias, Scyllium gracilis, Scyllium planidens, Sylvestrilamia, Synodontaspis, Tethylamna, Turania
Subtaxa: Brachycarcharias atlasi Brachycarcharias koerti Brachycarcharias lerichei Brachycarcharias mississippiensis Brachycarcharias twiggsensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1 collection)
• Eocene of Angola (5), Antarctica (24), Belgium (5), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (11), France (3), Germany (1), India (3), Italy (3), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (4), Senegal (2), Spain (1), Togo (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (20: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Washington), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (1), New Zealand (2), Togo (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 116 collections including 130 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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