†suborder Hexanchoidei Hay 1902 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Hexanchiformes

Alternative spelling: Hexanchoidea

Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1902. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868

Parent taxon: Hexanchiformes according to S. Stumpf and J. Kriwet 2019

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Hay 1902, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Landau et al. 2025, Maisey 1986 and Popov et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Chlamydoselachidae, Crassonotidae, Heptranchidae, Hexanchidae, Komoksodontidae, Orthacodidae, Paraheptranchias, Paranotidanus

Subtaxa: Crassodontidanidae

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Ukraine (1 collection)

• Jurassic of Germany (4), Poland (2)

Total: 7 collections including 8 occurrences

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