Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Antunes and Balbino 2003, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2006 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae, Truyolsodontidae, Xiphodolamiidae
Subtaxa: Alopias Paranomotodon Vulpecula
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Peru (1 collection), United States (3: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Libya (1), Peru (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), France (4), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Japan (2), Malta (4), Mexico (2), Panama (5), Peru (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), United States (8: Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of Czechia (2), France (1), United States (3: California, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), Egypt (17), India (1), Jordan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina), Western Sahara (2)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Czechia (2), France (6), Germany (2), Israel (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), the Netherlands (1), Spain (1), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (23: Delaware, Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas, Utah)
Total: 137 collections including 148 occurrences