Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1835. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (5me livraison)
Parent taxon: Hemigaleidae according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Adnet et al. 2020, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cantalice et al. 2019, Cantalice et al. 2025, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Case 1981, Casier 1958, Chandler et al. 2006, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Compagno 2005, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Deraniyagala 1969, Eastman 1908, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2021, Gibbes 1847, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Landau et al. 2025, Landini et al. 2019, Leriche 1942, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Chaenogaleus, Hemigaleus, Moerigaleus, Paragaleus
Subtaxa: Hemipristis curvatus Hemipristis cyclodonta Hemipristis elongata Hemipristis elongatus Hemipristis heteropleurus Hemipristis intermedia Hemipristis lavigniensis Hemipristis serra Hemipristis tanakai Hemipristis unidenticulata Hemipristis wyattdurhami
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Taiwan (1 collection), Tanzania (1), United States (3: Alabama, Florida, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Libya (1), Mexico (2), North Atlantic (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Japan (3), Mexico (1), North Atlantic (1), Panama (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Neogene of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Angola (3), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (3), Belgium (3), Brazil (11), Brunei Darussalam (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (2), Czechia (1), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (17), Germany (2), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (6), Libya (1), Madagascar (2), Malta (5), Mexico (4), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (25), Peru (5), Poland (1), Portugal (8), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (37: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (19)
• Oligocene of Angola (2), Australia (1), Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (2), United States (7: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Barbados (3), Egypt (24), India (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Tunisia (1), United States (14: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina), Western Sahara (3)
• Triassic of France (1)
Total: 277 collections including 281 occurrences
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