Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Parent taxon: Rhinopristiformes according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Andrews 1906, Bryant 1989, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1987, Case 1981, Casier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Ebersole et al. 2019, Estes 1964, Estes and Berberian 1970, Hay 1902, Jonet 1968, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kriwet 2005, Leriche 1942, Miller 1967, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Storer and Johnson 1974, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2006, Verma 2024 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Atlantobatis, Glaucopristis, Glaucostegidae, Microbatis, Rhinidae, Rhinobatidae, Rhynchobatidae, Sowibatos, Tlalocbatos, Trygonorrhinidae
Subtaxa: Anoxypristis Mesopristis Oxypristis Peyeria Platyspondylus Pristinae Pristis Propristis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida collections)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Australia (3), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Brunei Darussalam (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Egypt (2), France (4), India (5), Japan (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Peru (7), Portugal (7), Spain (2), United States (7: Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina), Venezuela (16)
• Oligocene of Angola (3), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), United States (2: Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene to Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Eocene of Angola (5), Antarctica (2), Australia (1), Belgium (3), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (38), France (1), India (1), Italy (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (3), Namibia (1), Nigeria (4), Peru (1), Qatar (2), Senegal (2), Spain (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (29: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (4)
• Tertiary of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Paleocene of United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Paleogene of Libya (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (3), Egypt (4), Jordan (1), Morocco (1), Niger (2), United States (2: New Jersey, North Carolina)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Uruguay (1)
Total: 217 collections including 308 occurrences