Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Centrophoridae
Synonyms: Atractophorus Gilchrist 1922, Entoxychirus Gill 1863, Lepidorhinus Bonaparte 1838, Machephilus Johnson 1868
Parent taxon: Centrophoridae according to N. Straube et al. 2015
See also Adnet et al. 2008, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Compagno 1984, Jordan 1963, Keyes 1984, Kocsis 2007, Long 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Villafaña et al. 2020 and White et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Centrodeania, Deania
Subtaxa: Centrophorus granulosus Centrophorus squamosus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (6 collections)
• Pliocene of Italy (2)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Colombia (1), Ecuador (2), France (8), Germany (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (3)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Barbados (1), France (1), Jordan (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Oregon)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (4), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1)
Total: 44 collections including 46 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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