Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Full reference: L. S. Glikman. 1958. O tempakh evolyutsii lamnoidnykh akul. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 123:568-571
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to S. Bogan and F. L. Agnolin 2010
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Case 1978, Case 1979, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Herman 1977, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Shimada 1997, Siverson 1997 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae, Truyolsodontidae, Xiphodolamiidae
Subtaxa: Acrolamna Cretoxyrhina Dallasiella Plicatolamna
Type: Cretoxyrhina
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (3 collections), Australia (3), Belgium (4), Brazil (1), Canada (7: Alberta, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), France (16), Germany (2), Israel (7), Italy (11), Japan (1), Jordan (3), Kazakhstan (2), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (8), Sweden (5), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (7), United States (49: Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas), Venezuela (1)
Total: 143 collections including 158 occurrences