Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Alternative combinations: Isurus oxyrhinchus, Isurus oxyrhynchus
Synonyms: Isurus desorii Agassiz 1843, Oxyrhina desori Agassiz 1843, Oxyrhina desorii Agassiz 1843, Oxyrhina grandis Davis 1888, Oxyrhina minutus Cope 1875, Oxyrhina spallanzanii Bonaparte 1841
Belongs to Isurus according to W. Landini et al. 2019
See also Agassiz 1843, Agassiz 1843, Arambourg 1927, Boessenecker 2011, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Case 1981, Casier 1958, Casier 1966, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Davis 1888, dos Reis 2005, Fowler 1911, Gibbes 1847, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Kent 2018, Kuga 1985, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1938, Leriche 1942, Marsili et al. 2007, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, White 1926, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Isurus desori, Isurus escheri, Isurus leptodon, Isurus moniwaensis, Isurus paucus, Isurus planus, Isurus praecursor, Isurus retroflexus, Isurus sanctaeclarae, Isurus sillimanii, Isurus spallanzani
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Japan (2), United States (2: California)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (1), Italy (2), Japan (3), Libya (1), South Africa (1), United States (4: California, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (5), Belgium (1), Chile (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Grenada (3), Italy (2), Japan (5), Malta (4), the Netherlands (1), Oman (1), Panama (4), Peru (5), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Spain (1), United States (10: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Barbados (2), Egypt (1), India (1), Nigeria (2), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (2: Georgia, New Jersey)
• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 96 collections including 97 occurrences
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