Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Alternative spelling: Sphyrninae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Case 1981, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Ebersole et al. 2024, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, Galeocerdonidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Cestrorhinus Eusphyra Platysqualus Reniceps Sphyra Sphyrichthys Sphyrna Sphyrnias Zygaena
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Japan (1), United States (3: California, Georgia)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Colombia (1), Libya (1), South Africa (1), United States (3: California, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Brazil (5), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Czechia (1), France (8), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (5), Japan (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Oman (1), Panama (12), Peru (4), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (12: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (1), United States (6: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (2), Egypt (1), India (1), Nigeria (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), United States (1: Georgia), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 117 collections including 155 occurrences