Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
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 and Purdy et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, 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 (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida)
• 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 (12), 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)
• Neogene of United States (1: California)
• 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: 229 collections including 263 occurrences