Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Parent taxon: Mitsukurinidae according to L. V. Compagno 2005
See also Goedert et al. 2024, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kocsis 2007, Sepkoski 2002 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Anomotodon, Clerolamna, Rhinognathus, Scapanorhynchus, Striatolamia, Woellsteinia
Subtaxa: Mitsukurina lineata Mitsukurina maslinensis Mitsukurina owstoni
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Angola (1 collection), Australia (1), Costa Rica (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (2)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Germany (1), Poland (1)
• Eocene of Australia (4), France (8), Jordan (1), United States (2: Washington)
Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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