Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Alternative spelling: Carchariinae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, David 1943, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2024, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Landau et al. 2025, Leriche 1942, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Miller 1967 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae, Truyolsodontidae, Xiphodolamiidae
Subtaxa: Carcharias Oxytes Triglochis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), France (1), Italy (1), South Africa (1), Taiwan (2), United States (10: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (8), Austria (8), Belgium (3), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Czechia (2), France (11), Germany (11), Grenada (1), Hungary (2), India (2), Italy (2), Japan (9), Malta (5), the Netherlands (3), Peru (4), Poland (2), Portugal (7), Slovakia (4), Spain (7), United States (17: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)
• Neogene of North Pacific (1), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (2)
• Oligocene of Angola (3), Australia (4), Czechia (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (4), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), Romania (2), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Angola (4), Antarctica (2), Argentina (2), Australia (3), Barbados (1), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (1), Egypt (14), Germany (2), India (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tonga (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (20: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Austria (2), Belgium (3), Denmark (3), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (6), Sweden (2), Togo (1), United States (10: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (3), Argentina (2), Australia (3), Canada (13: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (5), France (12), Israel (5), Japan (2), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Sweden (7), Syria (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (87: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 488 collections including 665 occurrences