Physogaleus Cappetta 1980 (requiem shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42

Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022

See also Cappetta 1980, Carnevale et al. 2014, Case et al. 2015, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, 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 taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhininae, Carcharhinus, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Negaprion, Physodon, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Rhizoprionodon, Scoliodon, Scoliodontinae, Triaenodon

Subtaxa: Physogaleus contortus Physogaleus cuvieri Physogaleus hemmooriensis Physogaleus onkensis Physogaleus secundus

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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 (5: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Northwest Territory), Egypt (14), France (1), India (2), Italy (1), Jordan (1), Morocco (8), 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: 134 collections including 146 occurrences

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