Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. L' age des Formations sedimentaires de Patagonie. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 52:189-197
Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to C. Werner 1989
See also Ameghino 1901, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Sepkoski 2002 and Szabo et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Isurolamna, Isurus, Lamna, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Selanonius, Uyenoa
Subtaxa: Carcharoides catticus Carcharoides tenuidens Carcharoides totuserratus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Hungary (2), Malta (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: Virginia)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (4), Hungary (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (2)
Total: 18 collections including 21 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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