Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Brachaeluridae
Parent taxon: Orectoloboidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Cicimurri et al. 2025, Ebersole et al. 2024, Kriwet 2003, Nelson et al. 2016 and Thies 1983
Sister taxa: Hemiscylliidae, Hemiscyllioidea, Orectolobidae, Orectoloboidea, Rhincodontidae, Stegostomatidae
Subtaxa: Brachaelurus Eostegostoma Paraginglymostoma
Type: Brachaelurus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi collections)
• Eocene of Egypt (5), France (7), Jordan (1), the Netherlands (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (6)
• Paleocene of France (2), Morocco (2)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Germany (1), Jordan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: New Jersey, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 43 collections including 44 occurrences