Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdonidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Cicimurri et al. 2025 and Ebersole et al. 2024
Sister taxa: Altusmirus, Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Fornicatus, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Physogaleus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Belgium (6), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Germany (4), Hungary (1), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), North Atlantic (1), Panama (10), Peru (5), United States (19: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene of Belgium (7), France (2), Germany (3), the Netherlands (3), Poland (2), United States (10: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2)
• Eocene of Angola (3), Belgium (5), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Northwest Territory), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (21), France (7), India (5), Italy (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (9), Qatar (1), the Russian Federation (8), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (13), United States (28: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (4), Nigeria (1), Togo (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Virginia)
Total: 236 collections including 271 occurrences