Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42
Parent taxon: Galeocerdidae according to E. V. Popov et al. 2025
See also Cappetta 1980, Carnevale et al. 2014, Case et al. 2015, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Kent 2018, Landini et al. 2019, Maisch et al. 2014, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Rana et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Tabuce et al. 2005 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxon: Galeocerdo
Subtaxa: Physogaleus contortus Physogaleus cuvieri Physogaleus hemmooriensis Physogaleus onkensis Physogaleus secundus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Belgium (1 collection), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Panama (10), Peru (4), United States (18: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), Poland (1), United States (6: Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Northwest Territory), Egypt (14), France (1), India (2), Italy (1), Jordan (1), Morocco (8), the Russian Federation (5), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (22: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Virginia)
Total: 140 collections including 152 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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