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: Triaenodontini according to A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta 1997
See also Cappetta 1980, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Maisch et al. 2014, Otero et al. 2013, Popov et al. 2025 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Abdounia africana Abdounia beaugei Abdounia enniskilleni Abdounia finalis Abdounia mesetae Abdounia minutissima Abdounia recticonia Abdounia richteri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (2), Chile (1), Egypt (23), Jordan (1), Morocco (9), the Russian Federation (3), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (34: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (7), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 106 collections including 146 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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