Isurus Rafinesque 1810 (mackerel shark)

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, 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, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Lamna, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Selanonius, Uyenoa

Subtaxa: Isurus desori Isurus escheri Isurus leptodon Isurus moniwaensis Isurus oxyrinchus Isurus paucus Isurus planus Isurus praecursor Isurus retroflexus Isurus sanctaeclarae Isurus sillimanii Isurus spallanzani

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Japan (3), Peru (1), United States (4: California)

• Blancan of Mexico (1)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (3), Italy (3), Japan (4), Libya (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), South Africa (1), Spain (3), United States (6: California, North Carolina, Oregon)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (2), United States (2: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (11), Austria (2), Belgium (2), Brazil (3), Chile (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (2), France (6), Germany (1), Grenada (3), Hungary (1), India (8), Italy (2), Japan (32), Malta (5), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (4), Oman (1), Panama (4), Peru (7), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Slovakia (2), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (29: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Neogene of Madagascar (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (4), France (1), Hungary (1), Japan (2), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (5), Australia (3), Barbados (2), Chile (1), Egypt (4), Germany (1), India (3), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (14: California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington), Uzbekistan (1)

• Cenozoic of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of New Zealand (2), South Africa (1), Sweden (2), United States (5: New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 277 collections including 346 occurrences

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