Chondrichthyes - Pristiophoriformes - Pristiophoridae
Parent taxon: Pristiophoriformes according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Jordan 1963, Long 1992, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Underwood 2006, Underwood and Schlogl 2013, Villafaña et al. 2020, Woodward 1889 and Wueringer et al. 2009
Sister taxon: Ikamuius
Subtaxa: Pliotrematinae Pristiophorinae Pristiophorus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection), Japan (1), New Zealand (7), United States (2: California)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), Colombia (2), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (4), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (9), Panama (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (4), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (5)
• Eocene of Antarctica (7), Argentina (2), Chile (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), New Zealand (5)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), Israel (1), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1)
Total: 92 collections including 98 occurrences