Chondrichthyes - Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae
Parent taxon: Echinorhinidae according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
See also Adnet et al. 2012, Bogan et al. 2016, Guinot et al. 2014, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kitamura 2013, Leriche 1926, Purdy et al. 2001 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Gibbechinorhinus
Subtaxa: Echinorhinus australis Echinorhinus blakei Echinorhinus lapaoi Echinorhinus maremagnum Echinorhinus pozzii Echinorhinus spinosus Echinorhinus vielhus Echinorhinus wadanohanaensis
Type: Squalus spinosus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), Ukraine (2), United States (1: Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (2), France (2), Japan (4)
Total: 28 collections including 29 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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