Chondrichthyes - Pristiophoriformes
Alternative spelling: Pristiophoriphormes
Parent taxon: Squalomorphi according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Landau et al. 2025, Long 1992, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Underwood 2006 and Wueringer et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Echinorhiniformes, Hexanchida, Hexanchiformes, Protospinaciformes, Squaliformes, Squatiniformes
Subtaxa: Ikamuius Pristiophoridae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Chile (4 collections)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Chile (2), Italy (4), Japan (1), New Zealand (7), Spain (1), United States (2: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), Chile (5), Colombia (2), France (10), Germany (5), Japan (4), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (9), Panama (2), Peru (1), Portugal (3), Slovakia (4), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Belgium (6), New Zealand (4), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (5)
• Eocene of Antarctica (17), Argentina (2), Chile (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (5), France (2), Japan (1), Jordan (2), New Zealand (5)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), Israel (1), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1)
Total: 145 collections including 152 occurrences