Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Alternative spellings: Carcharhininae, Carcharinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to S. K. Verma 2024
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Adnet et al. 2020, Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Carnevale et al. 2014, Case 1981, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Collareta et al. 2022, Compagno 2005, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, FourriƩre et al. 2014, Hay 1902, Kent 2018, Long 1992, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Szabo et al. 2017, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2006, VillafaƱa et al. 2020 and Weiler 1938
Sister taxa: Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, Galeocerdonidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Alopiopsis Aprionodon Archaeogaleus Carcharhininae Carcharhinus Danogaleus Eogaleus Glyphis Hypoprion Isogomphodon Lamiopsis Loxodon Misrichthys Nasolamia Negaprion Physodon Physogaleus Prionace Pseudabdounia Rhizoprionodon Scoliodontinae Triaenodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (2 collections), Ecuador (2), Japan (3), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (14: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (2), Chile (2), Colombia (1), Ecuador (4), Greece (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1)
• Neogene of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Austria (8), Belgium (2), Brazil (6), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (6), France (12), Germany (3), Grenada (5), Hungary (2), India (12), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (28), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Mexico (5), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (29), Peru (11), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Sri Lanka (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (38: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (10)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Japan (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (6), Poland (1), United States (8: Alabama, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Argentina (2), Barbados (3), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Northwest Territory), Chile (1), Egypt (35), France (1), India (5), Italy (3), Jordan (2), Morocco (10), Namibia (1), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (7), Senegal (3), Togo (1), Tonga (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (17), United States (43: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (4)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (13), Togo (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
Total: 510 collections including 1222 occurrences