Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Parent taxon: Mitsukurinidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013
See also Cantalice et al. 2019, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Herman 1977, Maisch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anomotodon, Mitsukurina, Rhinognathus, Scapanorhynchus, Woellsteinia
Subtaxa: Striatolamia macrota Striatolamia striata
Type: Otodus macrotus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection), the Czech Republic (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (4: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (3), France (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (26: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Kazakhstan (2), Sweden (2), Togo (1), United States (7: Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1), United States (3: Delaware, Maryland)
Total: 95 collections including 99 occurrences
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