Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to L. V. Compagno 2005
See also Ameghino 1901, Applegate 1970, Bohm 1926, Case 1981, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Casier 1966, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Davis 1888, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1942, Long 1992, Martin 1996, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond 1971, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Uyeno et al. 1981, Weiler 1938 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Carcharoides, Carcharomodus, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Isurolamna, Isurus, Lethenia, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Rhizoquadrangulus, Selanonius, Uyenoa
Subtaxa: Lamna affinis Lamna apiculata Lamna barnitzkei Lamna biauriculata Lamna caurina Lamna complanata Lamna compressa Lamna cornubicus Lamna crassa Lamna crassidens Lamna ditropis Lamna divergens Lamna marginalis Lamna nasus Lamna quinquelateralis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (4: California, Georgia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Italy (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (6), Austria (1), Chile (1), India (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Tunisia (1)
• Neogene of Japan (1), North Pacific (3), South Pacific (2), United States (1: Hawaii)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (2), Japan (1), New Zealand (2), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Australia (3), Egypt (1), India (1), Japan (1), Namibia (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Georgia, Louisiana)
• Paleocene of United States (3: New Jersey)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (6), Germany (2), Lithuania (1), New Zealand (2), Niger (2), Poland (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Kansas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 98 collections including 112 occurrences
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