Mustelus (hound shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

Parent taxon: Triakinae according to S. Adnet and H. Cappetta 2008

See also Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Villafan˃a et al. 2025 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: Palaeogaleus, Paratriakis, Triakis

Subtaxa: Mustelus biddlei Mustelus californicus Mustelus henlei Mustelus mustelus Mustelus punctulatus Mustelus vanderhoefti Mustelus whitei

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (2: California collections)

• Pliocene of Italy (1), Spain (7)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Belgium (2), Chile (2), Costa Rica (1), Germany (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), Panama (4), Portugal (3), United States (6: North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Egypt (3), France (8), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: Georgia)

• Paleocene of France (2), United States (1: California)

Total: 59 collections including 60 occurrences

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