Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Alternative combination: Carcharias macrota
Synonyms: Carcharias elegans Agassiz 1838, Lamna elegans Agassiz 1838, Lamna huttoni Davis 1888, Odontaspis elegans Agassiz 1838, Odontaspis macrota rossica Jaekel 1895, Striatolamia elegans Agassiz 1838
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (11me livraison) 73-140
Belongs to Striatolamia according to P. J. De Schutter and E. Steurbaut 2025
See also Agassiz 1838, Agassiz 1843, Agassiz 1843, Alessandri 1896, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Clark 1895, Davis 1888, Eastman 1904, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1942, Pledge et al. 2015, Rapp 1946, Stromer 1910, Woodward 1889 and Zhelezko and Kozlov 1999
Sister taxa: Striatolamia cederstroemi, Striatolamia sibirica, Striatolamia striata, Striatolamia whitei
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection), Czechia (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (4: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (25), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Belgium (5), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (3), China (2), Denmark (1), France (7), Germany (2), India (3), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), the Netherlands (13), New Zealand (5), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (11), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (28: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of China (2)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), United States (5: Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1), United States (3: Delaware, Maryland)
Total: 160 collections including 161 occurrences
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