Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cantalice et al. 2025, Chandler et al. 2006, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, Kent 2018, Landau et al. 2025, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Altusmirus, Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Fornicatus, Galeocerdonidae, Leptochariidae, Pentanchidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Chaenogaleus Hemigaleus Hemipristis Moerigaleus Paragaleus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Taiwan (1), United States (3: Alabama, Florida, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), Spain (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene of Angola (3), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Austria (5), Belgium (1), Brazil (11), Brunei Darussalam (2), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (2), Czechia (2), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (13), Germany (2), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (6), Libya (1), Madagascar (2), Malta (5), Mexico (4), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (25), Peru (5), Poland (2), Portugal (7), 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 (12)
• Neogene of North Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Angola (2), Australia (1), Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (2), United States (6: Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Barbados (3), Egypt (26), 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: 267 collections including 314 occurrences