Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Full reference: H. Cappetta and D. Nolf. 2005. Révision de quelques Odontaspididae (Neoselachii: Lamniformes) du Paléocène et de l'Eocène du Bassin de la mer du Nord. Bulletin de l'institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 75:237-266
Parent taxon: Odontaspididae according to G. Marramà et al. 2019
See also Cappetta and Nolf 2005, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Mannering and Hiller 2008 and Marramà et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Araloselachus, Cenocarcharias, Eostriatolamia, Glueckmanotodus, Hispidaspis, Hypotodus, Jaekelotodus, Johnlonginae, Lamninae, Mennerotodus, Microcarcharias, Odontaspinae, Odontaspis, Orpodon, Palaeohypotodus, Pseudodontaspis, Pueblocarcharias, Scyllium gracilis, Scyllium planidens, Sylvestrilamia, Synodontaspis, Tethylamna
Subtaxa: Brachycarcharias atlasi Brachycarcharias koerti Brachycarcharias lerichei Brachycarcharias mississippiensis Brachycarcharias twiggsensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Italy (3), Nigeria (4), Senegal (2), the United Kingdom (13), United States (15: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), New Zealand (2), Togo (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 45 collections including 51 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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