Family Etmopteridae Fowler 1941 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Etmopteridae

Synonym: Aculeolidae Herman and van Waes 2012

Parent taxon: Squaliformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016, Underwood and Schlogl 2013 and van der Laan 2019

Sister taxa: Centrophoridae, Centropterus, Dalatiidae, Dalatioidea, Eoscymnidae, Fredipristis, Gibbechinorhinus, Oxynotidae, Paraechinorhinus, Scymnorhinidae, Somniosidae, Squalidae, Squalogaleus

Subtaxa: Aculeola Eoetmopterus Etmopterus Incognitorapax Miroscyllium Paraetmopterus Proetmopterus Trigonognathus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Panama (1 collection), Slovakia (6)

• 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: 39 collections including 53 occurrences

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