Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Alternative spelling: Ginglymostominae
Parent taxon: Orectoloboidea according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Kriwet et al. 2009, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Tabuce et al. 2005 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Cantioscyllium Delpitoscyllium Ganntouria Ginglymostoma Hologinglymostoma Nebrius Plicatoscyllium Protoginglymostoma Pseudoginglymostoma
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida, Georgia collections)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (4), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), France (6), Germany (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Oman (1), Pakistan (2), Puerto Rico (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Barbados (2), Brazil (1), Egypt (5), Mexico (1), Morocco (9), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (22: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), India (1), Morocco (13), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Togo (1), United States (2: Arkansas, Mississippi)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), France (9), Israel (1), Jordan (5), Lithuania (3), Mali (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (19), the Netherlands (1), Niger (1), Spain (4), Syria (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (37: Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 206 collections including 297 occurrences