Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2022
See also Antunes and Balbino 2003, Boessenecker 2016, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cantalice et al. 2025, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Herman 1977, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016, Popov et al. 2025, Shimada et al. 2024, Szabo et al. 2017 and van der Laan 2019
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae, Truyolsodontidae, Xiphodolamiidae
Subtaxa: Cretalamna Kenolamna Megalolamna Megaselachus Otodus Palaeocarcharodon Parotodus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: South Carolina collection)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Cape Verde (1), New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Antigua and Barbuda (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Ecuador (2), Italy (8), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Portugal (1), South Africa (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (11: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (2), Cuba (1), Japan (2), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Portugal (1), United States (4: California, Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (4), Australia (11), Austria (9), Belgium (2), Brunei Darussalam (2), Cape Verde (1), Chile (2), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), Czechia (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (12), Germany (3), Greece (1), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (28), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Mexico (7), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (6), Oman (1), Panama (22), Peru (17), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (3), South Africa (2), Spain (5), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Türkiye (1), United States (58: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (7)
• Neogene of Barbados (1), Fiji (1), Indian Ocean (1), Nigeria (1), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (3), United States (1: California), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (10), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (3), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), United States (11: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Angola (9), Antarctica (3), Argentina (4), Australia (3), Belgium (1), Egypt (16), France (1), Germany (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (2), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (27: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Angola (3), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Angola (12), Austria (1), Belgium (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Denmark (3), Kazakhstan (3), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (1), Togo (1), United States (15: Alabama, California, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (6), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (7), Argentina (2), Australia (7), Belgium (7), Brazil (3), Canada (4: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (5), Czechia (1), Egypt (4), France (28), Germany (8), India (2), Israel (12), Italy (1), Japan (14), Jordan (14), Kazakhstan (3), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Mali (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (6), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (6), Sweden (9), Switzerland (1), Syria (6), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (100: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
Total: 792 collections including 904 occurrences