†order Pleuropterygii (shark)
Chondrichthyes - Pleuropterygii
Alternative spelling: Pleuropterygia
Parent taxon: Selachii according to D. S. Jordan 1963
See also Dean 1894 and Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Acanthodei, Cestraciontes, Ichthyotomi, Polyspondyli, Selachophidichthyoidei
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pleuropterygii in the database