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Echinorhinus

Chondrichthyes - Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae

Taxonomy

Echinorhinus is a genus. It is extant. Its type is Squalus spinosus.

It was assigned to Somniosidae by Hay (1902); to Spinacidae by Leriche (1926); to Scymnorhinidae by Jordan and Hanibal (1923), Jordan (1963); to Squaliformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Echinorhinidae by Jordan (1907), Jordan and Gilbert (1919), Purdy et al. (2001), Adnet et al. (2012), Kitamura (2013), Guinot et al. (2014), Bogan et al. (2016), Kent (2018), Cappetta et al. (2019).

Species

E. australis, E. blakei, E. eyrensis, E. lapaoi, E. maremagnum, E. pozzii, E. priscus, E. richiardii, E. schoenfeldi, E. spinosus, E. vielhus, E. wadanohanaensis

Species lacking formal opinion data

E. caspius, E. pollerspoecki

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1902	Echinorhinus Hay p. 315
1907	Echinorhinus Jordan p. 119
1919	Echinorhinus Jordan and Gilbert p. 23
1923	Echinorhinus Jordan and Hanibal p. 57
1926	Echinorhinus Leriche p. 381
1963	Echinorhinus Jordan p. 602
2001	Echinorhinus Purdy et al. p. 86
2002	Echinorhinus Sepkoski
2012	Echinorhinus Adnet et al. p. 82
2013	Echinorhinus Kitamura p. 190
2014	Echinorhinus Guinot et al. p. 65
2016	Echinorhinus Bogan et al.
2018	Echinorhinus Kent p. 58
2019	Echinorhinus Cappetta et al. p. 1144

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata

Rank	Name	Author
class	Chondrichthyes
infraclass	Elasmobranchii	(Bonaparte 1838)
superorder	Squalomorphi	(Compagno 1973)
order	Echinorhiniformes
family	Echinorhinidae
genus	Echinorhinus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Echinorhinus

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†Echinorhinus australis Chapman 1909

†Echinorhinus blakei Agassiz 1856

†Echinorhinus eyrensis Pledge 1992

†Echinorhinus lapaoi Antunes and Cappetta 2002

†Echinorhinus maremagnum Bogan et al. 2017

†Echinorhinus pozzii Ameghino 1906

†Echinorhinus priscus Arambourg 1952

†Echinorhinus richiardii Lawley 1876

†Echinorhinus schoenfeldi Pfeil 1983

†Echinorhinus spinosus Gmelin 1789

†Echinorhinus vielhus Guinot et al. 2014

†Echinorhinus wadanohanaensis Kitamura 2013

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Created:

2009-07-21 07:01:36

Modified:

2009-07-21 09:01:36

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Valanginian to the top of the Piacenzian or 137.05000 to 2.58000 Ma

Collections (42 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Valanginian	137.05 - 132.6	France (Gard)	E. vielhus (213631)
Late/Upper Hauterivian	132.6 - 125.77	France (Drôme)	E. sp. (213663)
Late/Upper Albian	106.3 - 100.5	Australia (Queensland)	Corax australis (275456) E. australis (275457) E. sp. (47057)
Middle Turonian - Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Japan	E. sp. (277045)
Early/Lower Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Japan	E. wadanohanaensis (219958)
Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Japan	E. sp. (228160) E. wadanohanaensis (219963)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Japan	E. sp., E. wadanohanaensis (228161)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Angola	E. lapaoi (275709)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Canada (British Columbia)	E. lapaoi (221571 221572)
Campanian - Maastrichtian	83.6 - 66.0	Chile	E. sp. (190521)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Chile (Santiago)	E. sp. (132352)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Argentina (Santa Cruz)	E. sp. (181059)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Southern Ocean	E. eyrensis (278418)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	Denmark	E. priscus (277915)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	USA (Virginia)	E. priscus (15595)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	Ukraine	E. caspius (211009)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	France	E. sp. (74858 277214 277215 277216)
Middle Eocene	48.07 - 37.71	Ukraine (Crimea)	E. caspius (140018)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	Russian Federation (Krasnodar)	E. sp. (187028)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Barbados	E. sp. (220746)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	Czechia (Moravia)	E. schoenfeldi (210132)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	USA (California)	E. blakei (11601)
Aquitanian	23.04 - 20.45	Austria	E. pollerspoecki (99160) E. sp. (278367 278368)
Aquitanian - Langhian	23.04 - 13.82	USA (North Carolina)	E. blakei (48887)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Argentina (Río Negro)	E. pozzii (242253)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Argentina (Chubut)	E. pozzii (45886 242252)
Burdigalian - Miocene	20.45 - 5.333	Argentina (Chubut)	E. pozzii (133690)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	USA (California)	E. blakei (59059)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	Argentina (Entre Ríos)	E. sp. (242254)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Chile	E. sp. (114474)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	USA (North Carolina)	E. blakei (52582)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Italy	E. richiardii (277335)