Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to K. M. Cantalice et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Chandler et al. 2006, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, Galeocerdonidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Chaenogaleus Hemigaleus Hemipristis Moerigaleus Paragaleus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), United States (3: Alabama, Florida, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Ecuador (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Mexico (2), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Neogene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Austria (5), Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (2), Fiji (1), France (13), Germany (2), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Italy (2), Japan (6), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (25), Peru (5), Poland (2), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (37: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (8)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (2), United States (5: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (3), Egypt (19), India (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), United States (14: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Triassic of France (1)
Total: 231 collections including 266 occurrences