Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Alternative spelling: Ginglymostominae
Parent taxon: Orectolobiformes according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Kriwet et al. 2009, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2021, Tabuce et al. 2005, Underwood 2006 and van der Laan 2019
Sister taxa: Akaimia, Annea, Archaeoscyllium, Crossorhinidae, Dorsetoscyllium, Galagadon, Garrigascyllium, Heterophorcynus, Jurascyllium, Magistrauia, Mesiteia, Orectoloboidei, Ornatoscyllium, Palaeocarcharidae, Parahemiscyllium, Parascyllioidei, Parasquatina, Phorcynidae, Rhinocodontidae, Similiteroscyllium
Subtaxa: Cantioscyllium Delpitoscyllium Ganntouria Ginglymostoma Hologinglymostoma Nebrius Plicatoscyllium Protoginglymostoma Pseudoginglymostoma
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida, Georgia collections)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (10), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), France (5), Germany (1), Japan (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene of Angola (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (2), Puerto Rico (1), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Angola (4), Barbados (2), Belgium (3), China (1), Egypt (7), France (1), India (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (9), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), South Atlantic (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (23: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Angola (8), Belgium (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Denmark (1), France (2), India (1), Morocco (13), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Sweden (1), Togo (2), United States (3: Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Belgium (6), Canada (1: British Columbia), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (2), France (12), Israel (1), Jordan (5), Lebanon (2), 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 (52: Arkansas, 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: 283 collections including 384 occurrences