Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2009, Agnolín et al. 2023, Andrews 1906, Antunes and Balbino 2003, Applegate 1970, Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cassier 1966, Cione et al. 2012, Cione and Reguero 1994, Compagno 2005, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Ehret et al. 2009, Ehret et al. 2012, Gottfried and Fordyce 2001, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Landau et al. 2025, Leriche 1942, Long 1992, Malyshkina et al. 2024, Marsili et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016, Popov et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Squires 1984, Szabo et al. 2017, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae, Truyolsodontidae, Xiphodolamiidae
Subtaxa: Alopecias Carcharodon Carcharoides Cosmopolitodus Exoles Isurolamna Isurus Lamna Macrorhizodus Oxyprinichthys Plectrostoma Selanonius Uyenoa
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Aruba (1 collection), Australia (2), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Italy (2), Japan (5), Peru (1), Taiwan (2), United States (15: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Argentina (3), Australia (5), Chile (3), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Italy (8), Japan (5), Libya (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Portugal (2), South Africa (2), Spain (4), United States (19: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (4), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), South Africa (2), United States (2: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (8), Australia (18), Austria (5), Belgium (3), Brazil (3), Chile (7), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Czechia (1), Denmark (2), Fiji (1), France (11), Germany (5), Greece (1), Grenada (3), Hungary (2), India (9), Italy (3), Japan (40), Libya (1), Malta (5), Mexico (6), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (4), Oman (1), Panama (11), Peru (17), Poland (2), Portugal (7), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (3), South Africa (2), South Korea (1), Spain (6), Sri Lanka (2), Tunisia (1), United States (50: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (4), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1), Japan (1), North Pacific (4), South Pacific (3), United States (1: Hawaii)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (7), Azerbaijan (1), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Japan (4), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (3), Romania (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Alabama, California, Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Angola (4), Antarctica (5), Argentina (4), Australia (4), Barbados (3), Chile (1), Egypt (26), France (1), Germany (1), India (3), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), South Atlantic (1), Spain (2), Togo (2), Tonga (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (16), United States (23: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Angola (4), Morocco (1), Togo (1), United States (8: Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Chile (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (6), France (1), Germany (2), Jordan (2), Lithuania (1), New Zealand (2), Niger (2), Poland (2), South Africa (1), South Atlantic (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (9: New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 593 collections including 949 occurrences