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, Goedert et al. 2025, Herman 1977, Kent 2018, Landau et al. 2025, Maisch IV et al. 2025, 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, Dallasiella, 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 Otodus Palaeocarcharodon Parotodus Trigonotodus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Cape Verde (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Ecuador (2), Italy (8), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (4), Portugal (2), South Africa (2), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (9: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (2), Cuba (1), Japan (6), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Portugal (1), United States (5: California, Florida), Venezuela (1)
• 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)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Angola (3), Argentina (4), Australia (9), Austria (10), Belgium (4), Brazil (10), Brunei Darussalam (2), Cape Verde (1), Chile (3), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), Czechia (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (2), France (13), Germany (5), Greece (1), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (6), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (30), Madagascar (2), Malta (5), Mexico (7), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (5), North Atlantic (7), Oman (1), Panama (27), Peru (22), Poland (2), Portugal (12), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (3), South Africa (2), South Atlantic (1), South Korea (1), Spain (7), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Türkiye (1), United States (58: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (19)
• Oligocene of Australia (8), Belgium (4), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (10), Kazakhstan (1), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (15: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene of Angola (9), Antarctica (7), Argentina (4), Australia (1), Belgium (6), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (23), France (5), Germany (2), Iran (1), Japan (2), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (6), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (30: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Angola (3), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Angola (12), Antarctica (1), Austria (1), Belgium (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Denmark (3), France (5), Kazakhstan (3), Morocco (4), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (1), Togo (1), United States (15: Alabama, California, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (5), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (15), Argentina (2), Australia (7), Belgium (7), Brazil (3), Canada (4: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (5), Czechia (1), Egypt (6), France (29), Germany (11), India (2), Israel (11), Italy (1), Japan (17), Jordan (14), Kazakhstan (4), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (6), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (7), Senegal (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (7), Sweden (9), Switzerland (1), Syria (4), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (140: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, 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: 989 collections including 1110 occurrences