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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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