Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Alternative spelling: Sphyrninae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to B. M. Landau et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Case 1981, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, 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: Altusmirus, Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Fornicatus, Galeocerdonidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Cestrorhinus Eusphyra Platysqualus Reniceps Sphyra Sphyrichthys Sphyrna Sphyrnias
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Japan (2), Taiwan (1), United States (6: California, Florida, Georgia)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), United States (3: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Angola (1), Argentina (3), Australia (3), Austria (1), Belgium (3), Brazil (11), Brunei Darussalam (3), Chile (1), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (2), Czechia (1), Egypt (1), France (14), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (6), Japan (2), Madagascar (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Oman (1), Panama (12), Peru (5), Poland (1), Portugal (10), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (13: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (11)
• Oligocene of Angola (3), Pakistan (1), United States (6: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Barbados (2), China (2), Egypt (1), India (1), Nigeria (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), United States (3: Alabama, Georgia), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of United States (2: Maryland)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
Total: 175 collections including 227 occurrences