†family Ctenacanthidae Dean 1909 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae

Parent taxon: Ctenacanthiformes according to M. Ginter et al. 2010

See also Duffin and Ginter 2006, Goto and Okura 2004, Nelson et al. 2016, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Williams 2001 and Zangerl 1981

Sister taxa: Acandylacanthus, Arauzia, Ctenacanthoidea, Goodrichthys, Heslerodidae, Kaibabvenator, Moyacanthus, Nanoskalme, Neosaivodus, Pororhiza, Saivodus

Subtaxa: Acondylacanthus Anodontacanthus ruthenorum Bythiacanthus Cladodoides Cladodus Cratoselache Ctenacanthus Glikmanius Glymmatacanthus Tamiobatis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Belgium (3 collections), India (3)

• Leonard of United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Permian of Bolivia (1), Brazil (3), China (1), Germany (5), Greenland (2), India (3), Japan (2), Oman (20), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (17: Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming)

• Pennsylvanian of Ireland (1)

• Mississippian of the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Alabama)

• Carboniferous of Belarus (3), Greenland (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (9), United States (51: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), Belarus (1), Brazil (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (3: Ohio)

Total: 149 collections including 187 occurrences

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