Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Alternative spelling: Gynglymostoma
Synonym: Acrodobatis Leidy 1877
Parent taxon: Ginglymostomatidae according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta and Case 1975, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1991, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Leriche 1942, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Tabaste 1963, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, White 1926 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Cantioscyllium, Delpitoscyllium, Ganntouria, Hologinglymostoma, Nebrius, Plicatoscyllium, Protoginglymostoma, Pseudoginglymostoma
Subtaxa: Ginglymostoma angolense Ginglymostoma botmaense Ginglymostoma chenanei Ginglymostoma cirratum Ginglymostoma cuspidata Ginglymostoma erramii Ginglymostoma khouribgaense Ginglymostoma lithuanica Ginglymostoma magrebianum Ginglymostoma malembeense Ginglymostoma maroccanum Ginglymostoma pectinatum Ginglymostoma serra Ginglymostoma sokotoense Ginglymostoma subafricanum
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida, Georgia collections)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), Ecuador (1), France (5), Germany (1), Peru (1), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Oligocene of Angola (3), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Angola (4), Barbados (2), France (1), India (1), Morocco (6), Nigeria (3), Senegal (1), South Atlantic (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), United States (13: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Belgium (1), India (1), Morocco (12), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Sweden (1), Togo (2), United States (2: Arkansas, Mississippi)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (2), Israel (1), Lithuania (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (11), Niger (1), United States (5: Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, Texas)
Total: 110 collections including 131 occurrences
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