Chondrichthyes - Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Parent taxon: Squatiniformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Biddle 1993, Case 1904, Case 1981, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Eastman 1904, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Long 1992, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Popov et al. 2024, Purdy et al. 2001, Szabo et al. 2017, Thies 1983, Underwood 2006, Underwood and Schlogl 2013, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxon: Pseudorhinidae
Subtaxa: Cretasquatina Phorcynis Squalraia Squatina
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (5: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1), South Africa (2), United States (4: California, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (7), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Japan (7), Malta (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), United States (10: California, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), the Netherlands (1), United States (6: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (14), United States (9: California, Georgia, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), United States (2: California, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta), Chile (1), France (15), Germany (5), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (5), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (5), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (53), United States (36: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 266 collections including 281 occurrences