Family Triakidae Gray 1851 (hound shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1992, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Kent 2018, Long and Stilwell 2000, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Underwood 2006 and Underwood et al. 1999

Sister taxa: Altusmirus, Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Fornicatus, Galeocerdonidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae

Subtaxa: Archaeotriakis Galeorhininae Palaeotriakis Squatigaleus Triakinae Triakini

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Chile (1 collection), Japan (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (11: California)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Chile (1), Italy (1), Peru (1), Spain (8), United States (2: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Belgium (3), Chile (4), Costa Rica (1), France (11), Germany (2), India (2), Japan (1), Malta (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), Panama (4), Poland (2), Portugal (3), South Africa (1), United States (8: California, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene of Germany (2), Hungary (1), Japan (3), United States (3: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Angola (2), Antarctica (4), Australia (1), Barbados (1), Belgium (7), Chile (1), Egypt (9), France (17), Germany (1), India (6), Italy (2), Jordan (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (6), Nigeria (2), Qatar (1), the Russian Federation (2), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (16), United States (23: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of France (2)

• Paleocene of Angola (1), Austria (5), Belgium (4), Bulgaria (2), Denmark (4), France (9), Morocco (16), South Atlantic (1), Sweden (1), Togo (2), United States (7: Arkansas, California, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (8), Canada (2: Alberta), Egypt (3), France (13), Germany (6), Israel (2), Lebanon (2), Morocco (8), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sweden (10), Syria (2), the United Kingdom (12), United States (22: Arkansas, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 367 collections including 579 occurrences

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