Family Galeocerdidae Whitley 1934 (ground shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae

Alternative spelling: Galeocerdinae

Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019

See also Noubhani and Cappetta 1997 and Verma 2024

Sister taxa: Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdonidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae

Subtaxa: Galeocerdo

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Japan (1), United States (6: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina)

• Blancan of Mexico (1)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), New Zealand (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (1)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2), Mexico (1), Panama (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (6), Austria (4), Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (2), France (9), Germany (3), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (7), Madagascar (1), Malta (4), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (13), Peru (3), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (34: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (6)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Japan (2), Oman (1), United States (6: Alabama, California, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Australia (1), Egypt (17), Germany (1), India (6), Jordan (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (35: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)

• Paleocene of Togo (1)

Total: 259 collections including 296 occurrences

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