Chondrichthyes - Pristiophoriformes - Pristiophoridae
Parent taxon: Pristiophoridae according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
See also Applegate and Uyeno 1968, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Jordan 1963, Keyes 1982, Long 1992, Otero et al. 2013, Sepkoski 2002, Underwood and Schlogl 2013, Uyeno 1972, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Pliotrematinae, Pristiophorinae
Subtaxa: Pristiophorus cirratus Pristiophorus japonicus Pristiophorus lacipidinensis Pristiophorus laevis Pristiophorus lanceolata Pristiophorus lanceolatus Pristiophorus lineatus Pristiophorus napierensis Pristiophorus nudipinnis Pristiophorus pricei Pristiophorus schroederi Pristiophorus smithi Pristiophorus striatus Pristiophorus suevicus Pristiophorus tumidens
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection), Japan (1), New Zealand (4), United States (2: California)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), Colombia (1), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (4), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (9), Panama (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (4), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (5)
• Eocene of Antarctica (7), Argentina (2), Chile (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), New Zealand (5)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), Israel (1), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1)
Total: 85 collections including 87 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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