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, VillafanĖa 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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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