Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to A. Collareta et al. 2022
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Adnet et al. 2020, Arambourg 1927, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Carnevale et al. 2006, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Casier 1958, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Compagno 2005, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kriwet 2005, Landini et al. 2019, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Szabo et al. 2017, Villafaña et al. 2020, White 1926 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhininae, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Negaprion, Physodon, Physogaleus, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Rhizoprionodon, Scoliodon, Scoliodontinae, Triaenodon
Subtaxa: Carcharhinus ackermani Carcharhinus albimarginatus Carcharhinus antiquus Carcharhinus balochenisis Carcharhinus brachyurus Carcharhinus dicelmai Carcharhinus egertoni Carcharhinus elongatus Carcharhinus falciformis Carcharhinus frequens Carcharhinus gibbesii Carcharhinus gilmorei Carcharhinus kasserinensis Carcharhinus lamia Carcharhinus leucas Carcharhinus macloti Carcharhinus magdalenae Carcharhinus mancinae Carcharhinus marcaisi Carcharhinus nigeriensis Carcharhinus obscurus Carcharhinus perezi Carcharhinus perseus Carcharhinus plumbeus Carcharhinus porosus Carcharhinus priscus Carcharhinus sorrah
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (2 collections), Ecuador (2), Japan (3), Mexico (1), United States (13: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (2), Chile (1), Ecuador (4), Greece (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Australia (4), Austria (7), Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (3), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (5), France (9), Germany (1), Grenada (5), Hungary (2), India (8), Jamaica (1), Japan (27), Malta (4), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (26), Peru (10), Poland (1), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (28: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (9)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (2), Pakistan (6), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Barbados (2), Egypt (24), India (1), Jordan (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), United States (20: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas), Western Sahara (3)
Total: 319 collections including 488 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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