Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Full reference: L. S. Glükman. 1964. Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fishes. Subclass Elasmobranchii (sharks). In D. V. Obruchev (ed.), Fundamentals of Paleontology. Vol. XI. Agnatha, Pisces. Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", Moscow 292-352
Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to W. Landini et al. 2019
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Glükman 1964, Herman 1977, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015 and Szabo et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Carcharoides, Exoles, Isurus, Lamna, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Selanonius, Uyenoa
Subtaxa: Cosmopolitodus plicatilis Cosmopolitodus xiphodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection), the Netherlands (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Panama (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Hungary (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), Slovakia (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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