Chondrichthyes - Squatiniformes
Parent taxon: Squalomorphi according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Biddle 1993, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Kent 2018, Long 1992, Long 2011, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: Echinorhiniformes, Hexanchida, Hexanchiformes, Pristiophoriformes, Protospinaciformes, Squaliformes
Subtaxa: Pseudorhinidae Squatinidae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (5: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1), South Africa (2), United States (4: California, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (1), Belgium (2), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), Czechia (2), France (7), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Japan (7), Malta (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), United States (10: California, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), the Netherlands (1), United States (6: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Belgium (2), Egypt (6), France (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (15), United States (9: California, Georgia, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Belgium (2), Denmark (2), Togo (1), United States (2: California, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (11), Canada (3: Alberta), Chile (1), France (21), Germany (7), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (5), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (59), United States (41: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 315 collections including 334 occurrences