Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Ameghino 1901, Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Bohm 1926, Cantalice et al. 2019, Cantalice et al. 2025, Case 1981, Casier 1958, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Compagno 2005, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Davis 1888, Deraniyagala 1969, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Gibbes 1847, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Landau et al. 2025, Landini et al. 2019, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1942, Maisch et al. 2014, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Popov et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2006, Rana et al. 2021, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Verma 2024, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Villafaña et al. 2020, White 1926 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhininae, Carcharhinus, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Kruckowlamna, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Negaprion, Physodon, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Rhizoprionodon, Scoliodontinae, Tingaleus, Triaenodon
Subtaxa: Galeocerdo aduncus Galeocerdo aeltrensis Galeocerdo capellini Galeocerdo clarkensis Galeocerdo cuvier Galeocerdo denticulatus Galeocerdo eaglesomei Galeocerdo egertoni Galeocerdo gibberulus Galeocerdo latidens Galeocerdo mayumbensis Galeocerdo medius Galeocerdo minor Galeocerdo mixtus Galeocerdo platycuspidatum Galeocerdo pygmaeus Galeocerdo semilevis Galeocerdo similis Galeocerdo subcrenatus Galeocerdo sublaevis Galeocerdo tigrinus
Type: Galeocerdo tigrinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Japan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (7: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (2), Spain (2), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (2), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Angola (3), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Austria (5), Belgium (7), Brazil (10), Brunei Darussalam (2), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), Czechia (2), Denmark (2), Egypt (1), France (13), Germany (3), Hungary (2), India (8), Italy (2), Japan (8), Libya (1), Madagascar (2), Malta (4), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (13), Peru (5), Poland (2), Portugal (8), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (34: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (11)
• Oligocene of Angola (2), Australia (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (3), Oman (1), United States (7: Alabama, California, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), Egypt (21), Germany (1), India (9), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (1), Qatar (5), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Togo (2), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (28: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
Total: 329 collections including 372 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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