Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Parent taxon: Mitsukurinidae according to E. V. Popov and V. A. Lopyrev 2024
See also Cantalice et al. 2019, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Herman 1977, Maisch et al. 2014, Otero et al. 2013, Popov et al. 2025, Sepkoski 2002 and Verma 2024
Sister taxa: Anomotodon, Clerolamna, Mitsukurina, Rhinognathus, Scapanorhynchus, Woellsteinia
Subtaxa: Striatolamia macrota Striatolamia striata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection), Czechia (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), India (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (9), 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: 105 collections including 109 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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