Mitsukurina Jordan 1898 (goblin shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae

Parent taxon: Mitsukurinidae according to L. V. Compagno 2005

See also Goedert et al. 2024, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kocsis 2007, Marramà et al. 2026, Sepkoski 2002 and Villafaña et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Anomotodon, Clerolamna, Rhinognathus, Scapanorhynchus, Striatolamia, Woellsteinia

Subtaxa: Mitsukurina lineata Mitsukurina maslinensis Mitsukurina owstoni

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1 collection)

• Miocene of Angola (1), Australia (1), Costa Rica (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Peru (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (2)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Germany (1), Poland (1)

• Eocene of Australia (4), France (8), Jordan (1), United States (2: Washington)

Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence

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