Subfamily Galeorhininae Gill 1862 (hound shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

Alternative spelling: Galeorhinidae

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

See also Hay 1902, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997 and Popov et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Archaeotriakis, Palaeotriakis, Squatigaleus, Triakinae, Triakini

Subtaxa: Galeorhinini Iagini Xystrogaleus

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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 (4), France (11), Germany (1), India (2), Japan (1), Malta (2), the Netherlands (1), Panama (3), Poland (2), Portugal (3), South Africa (1), United States (3: California, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)

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

• Eocene of Angola (2), Antarctica (2), Barbados (1), Belgium (7), Chile (1), France (13), Germany (1), India (6), Italy (2), Jordan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (3), Nigeria (2), Qatar (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (6), 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: 217 collections including 268 occurrences

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