Tribe Galeorhinini Gill 1862 (hound shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

Parent taxon: Galeorhininae according to S. Adnet and H. Cappetta 2008

See also Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Popov et al. 2025 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998

Sister taxa: Iagini, Xystrogaleus

Subtaxa: Galeorhinus Gomphogaleus Hypogaleus Khouribgaleus Pachygaleus

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Type: Galeorhinus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Chile (1 collection), Japan (1), Portugal (1), United States (10: California)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Chile (1), Peru (1), Spain (3), United States (2: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Belgium (1), Chile (3), France (10), India (2), Japan (1), Malta (1), the Netherlands (1), Panama (1), Poland (2), Portugal (3), South Africa (1), United States (3: California, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (1), Japan (2), United States (3: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Angola (2), Antarctica (2), Barbados (1), Belgium (7), France (11), Germany (1), India (5), Italy (2), Jordan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (3), Nigeria (2), Qatar (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (15), United States (21: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of France (2)

• Paleocene of Angola (1), France (9), Morocco (5), Togo (2), United States (2: Mississippi, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), France (3), Germany (1), Israel (1), Sweden (3), United States (11: Arkansas, Maryland, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas)

Total: 202 collections including 236 occurrences

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