Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes
Parent taxon: Chimaeroidei according to S. Gouiric-Cavalli et al. 2015
See also Hay 1902, Nelson 2006 and Popov et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Anteliochimaera, Callorhinchidae, Callorhinchoidea, Chalcodus, Eomanodon, Rhinochimaeridae
Subtaxa: Chimaerotheca Edaphodontidae
Type: Chimaera
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: Georgia, New Jersey)
• Paleocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (6: Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Canada (2: British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), France (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey)
Total: 47 collections including 54 occurrences