Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2024
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, Ehret et al. 2009, Ehret et al. 2012, Gottfried and Fordyce 2001, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Leriche 1942, Long 1992, Malyshkina et al. 2024, Marsili et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016, Popov et al. 2024, 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, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Serratolamnidae
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), 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 (19: 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)
• 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 (11), Germany (5), Greece (1), Grenada (3), Hungary (2), India (9), Italy (3), Japan (40), Malta (5), Mexico (6), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (4), Oman (1), Panama (12), Peru (15), Poland (2), Portugal (6), 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 Japan (2), Madagascar (1), South Pacific (3), United States (4: California, Hawaii)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (7), Azerbaijan (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Japan (4), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (3), Romania (1), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (6), Argentina (5), Australia (4), Barbados (3), Brazil (1), Chile (1), Egypt (20), France (1), Germany (1), India (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Spain (2), Togo (1), Tonga (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (17), United States (32: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (3)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (3), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Morocco (1), Togo (1), United States (7: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), 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 (2), United States (10: New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 588 collections including 980 occurrences