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Mitsukurina
Taxonomy
Mitsukurina was named by Jordan (1898) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m R Sepkoski's reference number: 884]. It is extant.
It was assigned to Lamniformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Mitsukurinidae by Jordan (1963), Herman (1977), Compagno (2005), Kocsis (2007) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Lamniformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Mitsukurinidae by Jordan (1963), Herman (1977), Compagno (2005), Kocsis (2007) and Villafaña et al. (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Pliocene or 55.80000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Eocene | Jordan | M. sp. (65225) | |
| Bartonian | USA (Washington) | M. sp. (203164) | |
| Chattian | Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) | M. lineata (32012) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Slovakia | M. lineata (47461) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Costa Rica | M. sp. (187875) | |
| Neogene | Madagascar | M. owstoni (55451) | |
| Burdigalian | Hungary | M. lineata (210623) | |
| Burdigalian | Germany (Bavaria) | M. lineata (210593) | |
| Middle Miocene | South Korea | M. lineata (221132) | |
| Pliocene | Angola | M. sp. (154111) |