Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cetorhinidae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to B. W. Kent 2018
See also Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cione and Reguero 1998, Duffin 1998, Jordan 1963, Kalabis and Schultz 1974, Nelson et al. 2016, Přikryl et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Schultz 1978 and Welton 2013
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Ptychodontidae, Serratolamnidae
Subtaxa: Caucasochasma Cetorhinus Keasius Pseudocetorhinus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic suspension feeder-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (2: California, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), United States (4: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Belgium (4), Czechia (1), Denmark (2), Germany (18), Japan (4), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (4), United States (13: California, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Washington)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Czechia (2), France (2), Germany (15), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Czechia (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Oregon)
• Triassic of France (3), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 102 collections including 105 occurrences