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Hemipristis serra

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae

Taxonomy
Hemipristis serra was named by Agassiz (1835). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was synonymized subjectively with Hemipristis heteropleurus by Jordan and Hanibal (1923).

Subspecies
H. maxima
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2006-07-28; modified by M. Clapham on 2021-08-05

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Hemipristis paucidens Agassiz figs. Pl 27, figs 31-33
1835Hemipristis serra Agassiz figs. Pl 27, figs 13-30
1843Hemipristis serra Agassiz figs. Pl N, fig 5
1843Hemipristis paucidens Agassiz p. 238
1847Hemipristis serra Gibbes p. 193
1868Hemipristis serra Cope p. 142
1878Carcharias (Prionodon) armatus Probst
1878Hemipristis klunzingeri Probst
1889Hemipristis serra Woodward p. 449
1902Hemipristis serra Hay p. 313
1924Hemipristis serra Chapman and Cudmore p. 115
1938Hemipristis serra Leriche p. 11
1942Hemipristis serra Leriche p. 89
1943Hemipristis serra Dartevelle and Casier p. 149 figs. Pl 12, figs 1-20
1946Hemipristis serra Rapp p. 510
1958Hemipristis serra Casier p. 39
1966Hemipristis serra Casier p. 502
1967Hemipristis serra Pledge p. 142 figs. Pl 1, fig 9
1968Hemipristis serra Deraniyagala p. 95
1969Hemipristis serra Deraniyagala p. 6
1978Hemipristis serra Antunes p. 68 figs. Pl 3, figs 45-60
1981Hemipristis serra Antunes et al. p. 18 figs. Pl 2, figs 7-9; pl 3, fig 5
1987Hemipristis serra de Ceuster p. 238 figs. Pl 4, fig 1
1989Hemipristis serra Karasawa p. 24 figs. Pl 7, figs 5,6
1998Hemipristis serra Yabe and Hirayama p. 48
2001Hemipristis serra Tanaka p. 75 figs. 3.4-3.6
2003Hemipristis serra Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea p. 124
2006Hemipristis serra Chandler et al. p. 3
2007Hemipristis serra Adnet et al. p. 314
2008Hemipristis serra Laurito and Valerio p. 69 figs. Pl 1, fig 20
2009Hemipristis serra Brisswalter p. 36 figs. Pl 6, figs 5,6; text-fig 36
2009Hemipristis serra Cicimurri and Knight p. 634
2009Hemipristis serra Costa et al. p. 225 figs. 1G,H, 2E
2010Hemipristis serra Cook et al. p. 82 figs. 3D, 4A,B
2011Hemipristis serra Ralte et al. p. 341 figs. Pl 3, figs 4-6
2014Hemipristis serra Pollerspöck and Beaury p. 29 figs. Pl 1, figs 5a,b
2015Hemipristis serra Andrianavalona et al. p. 11 figs. 4L-N
2015Hemipristis serra Argyriou et al. p. 91 fig. 3F
2015Hemipristis serra Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 7 figs. 3J-L
2015Hemipristis serra Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 61 fig. 5M,N
2016Hemipristis serra Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 7 figs. 4.8-4.13
2016Hemipristis serra Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 86
2017Hemipristis serra Hastings and Dooley p. 83
2017Hemipristis serra Van Boeckel p. 68 figs. 1-3
2018Hemipristis serra Kent p. 105
2018Hemipristis serra Maisch IV et al. p. 365 figs. 5A-D
2019Hemipristis serra Kocsis et al. p. 796 figs. 3B-K
2019Hemipristis serra Landini et al. p. 359
2022Hemipristis serra Cicimurri et al.
2022Hemipristis serra Lin et al. p. 9 fig. 6
2025Hemipristis serra Cantalice et al. p. 13
2025Hemipristis serra Landau et al. p. 18
2025Hemipristis serra Maisch IV et al. p. 21
2026Hemipristis serra Marramà et al. p. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
infraclassElasmobranchii(Bonaparte 1838)
—Euselachii()
—NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderGaleomorphiiCompagno 1973
orderCarcharhiniformesCompagno 1973
familyHemigaleidae
genusHemipristis
speciesserra

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.

†Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
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Invalid names: Carcharias (Prionodon) armatus Probst 1878 [synonym], Hemipristis klunzingeri Probst 1878 [synonym], Hemipristis paucidens Agassiz 1835 [synonym]
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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 06:53:24
Modified: 2009-07-21 08:53:24
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 56.00000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (217 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07Saudi Arabia (Ash Sharqiyah) Hemipristis serra (42459)
Lutetian - Chattian48.07 - 23.04Congo-Kinshasa Hemipristis serra (275437)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Barbados Hemipristis serra (220735)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Barbados Hemipristis serra (205153 220738)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3Egypt Hemipristis serra (187874)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3Pakistan Hemipristis serra (150337)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3USA (South Carolina) Hemipristis serra (60444)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3Oman (Dhofar) Hemipristis serra (175334)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3Pakistan Hemipristis serra (150430)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04USA (North Carolina) Hemipristis serra (71651)

Youngest occurrences
Time interval Ma Country or state PBDB collection number
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Mexico (Baja California Sur) Hemipristis serra (154117)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Hemipristis serra (52582)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.58Venezuela Hemipristis serra (277948)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.58North Atlantic Hemipristis serra (278448)
Pliocene - Gelasian5.333 - 1.8USA (Florida) Hemipristis serra (242028)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774USA (South Carolina) Hemipristis serra (188304)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774USA (Florida) Hemipristis serra (20400)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Taiwan Hemipristis serra (275913)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Tanzania Hemipristis serra (278406)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Alabama) Hemipristis serra (187584)