Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to L. V. Compagno 2005
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1981, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Kent 2018, Landini et al. 2019, Purdy et al. 2001 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhininae, Carcharhinus, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Physodon, Physogaleus, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Rhizoprionodon, Scoliodon, Scoliodontinae, Triaenodon
Subtaxa: Negaprion brevirostris Negaprion eurybathrodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (6: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina collections)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Ecuador (3), Libya (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Panama (1)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), France (1), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (4), Malta (5), Mexico (2), Panama (13), Peru (3), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), United States (18: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene of Egypt (1), Japan (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), United States (3: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Egypt (23), Pakistan (1), United States (3: Alabama, Georgia)
Total: 114 collections including 126 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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