Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Parent taxon: Triakinae according to S. Adnet and H. Cappetta 2008
See also Cappetta and Corral 1999, Corral et al. 2016, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Feichtinger et al. 2024, Hoganson et al. 2019, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Underwood and Ward 2008
Sister taxa: Mustelus, Paratriakis, Triakis
Subtaxa: Palaeogaleus brivesi Palaeogaleus dahmanii Palaeogaleus faujasi Palaeogaleus havreensis Palaeogaleus larachei Palaeogaleus navarroensis Palaeogaleus prior Palaeogaleus sublaevis Palaeogaleus vincenti
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Morocco (1 collection), United States (1: Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of France (2)
• Paleocene of Austria (5), Belgium (4), Bulgaria (2), Denmark (3), France (8), Morocco (16), Sweden (1), Togo (1), United States (3: Arkansas, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), France (2), Germany (2), Morocco (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (11: New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 83 collections including 95 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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