Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to L. V. Compagno 2005
See also Antunes and Balbino 2003, Applegate 1970, Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cantalice et al. 2019, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Case 1981, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cione and Reguero 1994, Deraniyagala 1969, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Heinrich 1969, Herman 1977, Jordan 1925, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kuga 1985, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Landini et al. 2019, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Marsili et al. 2007, Martin 1996, Miller 1967, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Weiler 1938 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Carcharoides, Carcharomodus, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Isurolamna, Lamna, Lethenia, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Rhizoquadrangulus, Selanonius, Uyenoa
Subtaxa: Isurus appendiculatus Isurus desori Isurus desorii Isurus flandricus Isurus leptodon Isurus moniwaensis Isurus oxyrinchus Isurus pagoda Isurus paucus Isurus praecursor Isurus retroflexus Isurus sanctaeclarae Isurus sillimanii Isurus winkleri Isurus xiphodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (2 collections), Chile (2), Japan (3), Peru (1), Taiwan (1), United States (9: California, Florida)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (3: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Chile (1), Italy (8), Japan (5), Libya (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (6), United States (4: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (1), Chile (3), Japan (3), North Atlantic (1), South Africa (2), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Angola (1), Argentina (1), Australia (11), Austria (2), Belgium (8), Chile (8), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (3), Czechia (1), Denmark (2), France (11), Germany (1), Grenada (3), Hungary (1), India (10), Italy (2), Japan (24), Malta (5), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (4), Oman (1), Panama (4), Peru (10), Poland (1), Portugal (10), Slovakia (3), South Africa (2), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (27: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Angola (2), Australia (4), Belgium (4), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Japan (7), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (1), Southern Ocean (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Australia (3), Barbados (2), Belgium (3), Bulgaria (1), Chile (1), China (2), Egypt (4), France (6), Germany (1), India (3), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Nigeria (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (14: California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of China (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (2), South Africa (1), Sweden (2), United States (4: New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Wyoming)
Total: 339 collections including 401 occurrences
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