Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Etmopteridae
Parent taxon: Squaliformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016 and Underwood and Schlogl 2013
Sister taxa: Centrophoridae, Centropterus, Dalatiidae, Dalatioidea, Fredipristis, Gibbechinorhinus, Oxynotidae, Paraechinorhinus, Pseudoechinorhinus, Scymnorhinidae, Somniosidae, Squalidae, Squalogaleus
Subtaxa: Eoetmopterus Etmopterus Incognitorapax Miroscyllium Orthechinorhinus Paraetmopterus Proetmopterus Trigonognathus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Panama (1 collection), Slovakia (6)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Barbados (2), France (2), Ukraine (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (2: British Columbia), France (1), Germany (9), Sweden (11), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 41 collections including 57 occurrences