†family Paraorthacodontidae Klug 2010 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae

Parent taxon: Synechodontiformes according to S. Stumpf and J. Kriwet 2019

See also Hoganson et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Keichouodus, Mucrovenator, Orthacodontidae, Palaeospinacidae, Parascylloides, Polyfaciodus, Rhomphaiodon, Safrodus, Wimanodon

Subtaxa: Paraorthacodus

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Type: Paraorthacodus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Chile (1)

• Paleocene of France (1), New Zealand (4)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (2), France (10), Israel (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (16), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (9), United States (4: Montana, North Dakota)

• Jurassic of Denmark (1), France (6), Germany (5), Poland (2), Sweden (1)

Total: 79 collections including 86 occurrences

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