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, Carcharomodus, 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 (4), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (3), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (3), Romania (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (6), Denmark (1), France (9), Kazakhstan (2), the Russian Federation (7), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene to Eocene of France (2)
• Paleocene of France (8), Morocco (1), Nigeria (1), Sweden (1), Togo (1)
Total: 67 collections including 69 occurrences
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