Parent taxon: Galeomorphii according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Adnet et al. 2009, Adnet et al. 2020, Agnolín et al. 2023, Biddle 1993, Bogan and Agnolin 2010, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cione et al. 2012, Cione and Reguero 1998, Cook et al. 2011, Cook et al. 2010, Duffin 1998, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Ehret et al. 2009, Ehret et al. 2012, Forey et al. 2003, Gottfried and Fordyce 2001, Kent 2018, Kriwet et al. 2009, Long 1992, Long 2011, Marsili et al. 2007, Moyano-Paz et al. 2022, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Shimada et al. 2024, Shimada et al. 2014, Squires 1984, Tabuce et al. 2005, Underwood 2006, Verma 2024 and Welton 2013
Sister taxa: Carcharhiniformes, Galeoidea, Jurobatos, Orectolobiformes
Subtaxa: Acutalamna Alopiidae Anacoracidae Aquilolamnidae Archaeolamnidae Carchariidae Carchariolamna Cardabiodontidae Cetorhinidae Cretoxyrhinidae Eoptolamnidae Haimirichiidae Hybodus dispar Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata Lamnidae Megachasmidae Mitsukurinidae Odontaspididae Orthodon Otodontidae Palaeocarcharias Paraisuridae Pseudisurus Pseudocarcharidae Pseudocarchariidae Pseudocoracidae Pseudoisurus tomosus Pseudoscapanorhynchidae Ptychodontidae Serratolamnidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore