Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Synonym: Hemipristis paucidens Agassiz 1835
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1835. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (5me livraison)
Belongs to Hemipristis according to W. Landini et al. 2019
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Agassiz 1835, Agassiz 1839, Agassiz 1843, Agassiz 1843, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Casier 1958, Casier 1966, Chandler et al. 2006, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Cope 1868, Deraniyagala 1968, Deraniyagala 1969, Gibbes 1847, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Leriche 1938, Leriche 1942, Rapp 1946, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Hemipristis curvatus, Hemipristis cyclodonta, Hemipristis elongata, Hemipristis elongatus, Hemipristis heteropleurus, Hemipristis lavigniensis, Hemipristis wyattdurhami
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Alabama, Florida, South Carolina collections)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Ecuador (1), Libya (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Mexico (1), Panama (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (3), Brazil (5), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (1), Fiji (1), France (10), Germany (1), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Italy (2), Japan (6), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Mexico (2), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (25), Peru (5), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (34: 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 (4: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (3), Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 161 collections including 162 occurrences
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