Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Alternative spelling: Sphyrninae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Case 1981, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016 and Purdy et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, 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), the Czech Republic (1), France (7), 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 (4: California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (2), Egypt (1), India (1), Nigeria (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), United States (12: Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 125 collections including 161 occurrences