†family Serratolamnidae Landemaine 1991 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae

Full reference: O. Landemaine. 1991. Sélaciens nouveaux du Crétacé supérieur du Sud-Ouest de la France. Quelques apports à la systématique des élasmobranches. SAGA Information, Hors-Série 1:1-45

Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019

See also Bogan and Agnolin 2010

Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Dallasiella, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Truyolsodontidae, Xiphodolamiidae

Subtaxa: Serratolamna

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Type: Serratolamna

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Angola (1 collection), Qatar (4), United States (1: Virginia)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Togo (1)

• Cretaceous of Angola (4), Argentina (3), Belgium (1), Brazil (2), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Cuba (2), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (2), Israel (2), Jamaica (1), Jordan (3), Madagascar (1), Mali (1), Mexico (3), Morocco (9), the Netherlands (1), Senegal (1), Spain (3), Sweden (1), Syria (5), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (20: Arkansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas), Venezuela (1)

Total: 82 collections including 100 occurrences

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