Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42
Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2026
See also Cappetta 1980, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Maisch et al. 2014, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Otero et al. 2013, Popov et al. 2025, Sepkoski 2002 and Trif et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhininae, Carcharhinus, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Galeocerdo, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Kruckowlamna, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Negaprion, Physodon, Physogaleus, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Rhizoprionodon, Scoliodontinae, Tingaleus, Triaenodon
Subtaxa: Abdounia africana Abdounia beaugei Abdounia belselensis Abdounia biauriculata Abdounia enniskilleni Abdounia finalis Abdounia kashiensis Abdounia lapierrei Abdounia lata Abdounia mesetae Abdounia minutissima Abdounia osipovae Abdounia recticona Abdounia richteri Abdounia vassilyevae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Belgium (1 collection)
• Eocene of Angola (3), Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Belgium (7), Chile (3), China (2), Egypt (30), France (12), India (1), Jordan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Morocco (9), the Netherlands (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Senegal (1), Spain (2), Togo (1), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (14), United States (36: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (7), Morocco (7), Togo (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 166 collections including 227 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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