Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Synonym: Microdontaspis Case et al. 2001
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 1:1-613
Parent taxon: Mitsukurinidae according to H. M. Maisch et al. 2021
See also Amalfitano et al. 2020, Arambourg and Joleaud 1943, Bice and Shimada 2016, Biddle 1993, Bourdon et al. 2011, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta and Case 1975, Cappetta and Case 1999, Case 1979, Case 1991, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Case et al. 2001, Chapman 1918, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Cuny et al. 2004, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Grimaldi et al. 2026, Guinot et al. 2013, Herman 1977, Itoigawa 1977, Jordan 1963, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Niedźwiedzki and Kalina 2003, Sepkoski 2002, Shimada 1996, Shimada 2006, Siverson 1992, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood and Mitchell 1999, Uyeno 1972 and Zalmout and Mustafa 2001
Sister taxa: Anomotodon, Clerolamna, Mitsukurina, Rhinognathus, Striatolamia, Woellsteinia
Subtaxa: Scapanorhynchus armenicus Scapanorhynchus darvasicus Scapanorhynchus lewisii Scapanorhynchus minimus Scapanorhynchus patagonensis Scapanorhynchus perssoni Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon Scapanorhynchus puercoensis Scapanorhynchus rapax Scapanorhynchus raphiodon Scapanorhynchus subulatus Scapanorhynchus temiricus Scapanorhynchus tenuis Scapanorhynchus texanus Scapanorhynchus trigeri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: Maryland collection)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene of Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (14), Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Belgium (6), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (6), the Congo-Kinshasa (10), Czechia (1), Egypt (7), France (27), Germany (7), India (1), Israel (10), Italy (1), Japan (8), Jordan (5), Kazakhstan (9), Lebanon (3), Lithuania (4), Mexico (3), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (2), Sweden (4), Switzerland (1), Syria (5), Tajikistan (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (132: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 307 collections including 329 occurrences
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