Xiphodolamia Leidy 1877 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Xiphodolamiidae

Full reference: J. Leidy. 1877. Description of vertebrate remains, chiefly from the phosphate beds of South Carolina. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:209-260

Parent taxon: Xiphodolamiinae according to J. Herman 1977

See also Adnet et al. 2009, Cicimurri and Ebersole 2021, Glikman 1964, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Rapp 1946 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Xiphodolamia barbadica Xiphodolamia ensis Xiphodolamia morricei Xiphodolamia serrata

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), Japan (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Eocene of Angola (1), Barbados (1), Belgium (3), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Jordan (2), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Louisiana, New Jersey), Western Sahara (2)

Total: 21 collections including 22 occurrences

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