Family Lamnidae Müller and Henle 1838 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae

Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to F. L. Agnolín et al. 2023

See also Adnet et al. 2009, 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, Ehret et al. 2009, Ehret et al. 2012, Gottfried and Fordyce 2001, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Leriche 1942, Long 1992, Marsili et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016, 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, Isurolamna, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Serratolamnidae

Subtaxa: Alopecias Carcharodon Carcharoides Cosmopolitodus Exoles Isurus Lamna Macrorhizodus Oxyprinichthys Plectrostoma Selanonius Uyenoa

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Aruba (1 collection), Australia (2), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Japan (5), Peru (1), Taiwan (1), 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 (20: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), Mexico (1), United States (2: California, Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), South Africa (2), United States (2: California)

• Neogene of Japan (2), Madagascar (1), South Pacific (3), United States (4: California, Hawaii)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (6), Australia (19), Austria (5), Belgium (2), Brazil (3), Chile (7), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (2), Fiji (1), France (10), Germany (5), Greece (1), Grenada (3), Hungary (2), India (9), Italy (2), Japan (40), Malta (5), Mexico (6), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (4), Oman (1), Panama (12), Peru (15), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Slovakia (3), South Africa (2), South Korea (1), Spain (6), Sri Lanka (2), Tunisia (1), United States (49: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (4), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (7), Azerbaijan (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Japan (4), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (3), Romania (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: California, Florida, Mississippi), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (6), Argentina (5), Australia (4), Barbados (3), Brazil (1), Chile (1), Egypt (20), Germany (1), India (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Spain (2), Togo (1), Tonga (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (16), United States (32: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (3)

• Cenozoic of New Zealand (3), United States (1: Alabama)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Togo (1), United States (8: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (4), Chile (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Jordan (1), Lithuania (1), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (2), Niger (2), South Africa (1), Sweden (2), Switzerland (7), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (10: New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 572 collections including 959 occurrences

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