Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Parent taxon: Hemigaleidae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2025
See also Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Compagno 2005, Kocsis 2007, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Purdy et al. 2001, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Chaenogaleus, Hemigaleus, Hemipristis, Moerigaleus
Subtaxa: Paragaleus pulchellus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Libya (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Miocene of Czechia (1), France (4), Germany (1), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Portugal (3), United States (1: North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of India (1), Western Sahara (2)
Total: 23 collections including 24 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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