Chondrichthyes - Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae
Parent taxon: Echinorhiniformes according to S. Bogan et al. 2016
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: Orthechinorhinidae, Pseudoechinorhinidae
Subtaxa: Echinorhinus Gibbechinorhinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), Austria (3), Chile (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), Denmark (1), France (4), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2), United States (1: Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (2), France (2), Israel (1), Japan (5), Southern Ocean (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 45 collections including 46 occurrences