Chondrichthyes - Pristiophoriformes - Pristiophoridae
Synonym: Propristiophorus Woodward 1932
Parent taxon: Pristiophoridae according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
See also Applegate and Uyeno 1968, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1980, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Jordan 1963, Keyes 1982, Landau et al. 2025, Long 1992, Otero et al. 2013, Sepkoski 2002, Underwood and Schlogl 2013, Uyeno 1972, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Pliotrematinae, Pochitaserra, Pristiophorinae
Subtaxa: Pristiophorus cirratus Pristiophorus humboldti Pristiophorus japonicus Pristiophorus lacipidinensis Pristiophorus laevis Pristiophorus lanceolata Pristiophorus lanceolatus Pristiophorus lineatus Pristiophorus napierensis Pristiophorus nudipinnis Pristiophorus pricei Pristiophorus rupeliensis Pristiophorus schroederi Pristiophorus smithi Pristiophorus striatus Pristiophorus suevicus Pristiophorus tumidens
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Chile (4 collections)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Chile (2), Italy (4), Japan (1), New Zealand (4), Spain (1), United States (2: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), Chile (4), Colombia (1), France (10), Germany (5), Japan (4), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (9), Panama (2), Peru (1), Portugal (3), Slovakia (4), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Belgium (6), New Zealand (4), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (5)
• Eocene of Antarctica (17), Argentina (2), Chile (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (5), France (2), Japan (1), Jordan (2), New Zealand (5)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), Israel (1), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1)
Total: 137 collections including 139 occurrences
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