Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1976. Sélaciens nouveaux du London Clay de l'Essex (Yprésien du bassin de Londres). Geobios 9:551-575
Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to E. V. Popov et al. 2025
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Carcharoides, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Isurus, Lamna, Lethenia, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Rhizoquadrangulus, Selanonius, Uyenoa
Subtaxa: Isurolamna bajarunasi Isurolamna gracilis Isurolamna inflata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (3), Romania (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), France (10), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene of France (4), Morocco (1), Nigeria (1), Togo (1)
Total: 45 collections including 51 occurrences
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