Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
Parent taxon: Orectoloboidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Case 1978, Case 1981, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2022, Jordan 1963, Long 1992, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Tabuce et al. 2005 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Brachaeluridae, Hemiscylliidae, Hemiscyllioidea, Orectoloboidea, Rhincodontidae, Stegostomatidae
Subtaxa: Cederstroemia Cirriscyllium Coelometlaouia Columbusia Cretorectolobus Eometlaouia Eucrossorhinus Gryphodobatis Heteroscyllium Nebriinae Orectoloboides Orectolobus Restesia Squatiscyllium Synchismus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene of Australia (1), United States (2: Delaware, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), France (3), Morocco (4), Senegal (1), United States (5: Alabama, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Morocco (3), Niger (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), Canada (14: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Egypt (1), France (12), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (2), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (19), United States (65: Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 151 collections including 172 occurrences