Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Parent taxon: Pristidae according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Cappetta 1987, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Ebersole et al. 2019, Landini et al. 2019 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Oxypristis, Peyeria, Platyspondylus, Pristinae, Pristis, Propristis
Subtaxa: Anoxypristis cuspidata Anoxypristis mucrodens
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (2 collections), Libya (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Peru (2), Portugal (2)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Angola (2), Egypt (21), Nigeria (2), Senegal (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (7: Alabama, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: North Carolina)
Total: 52 collections including 57 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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