†family Archaeolamnidae Underwood and Cumbaa 2010 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae

Full reference: C. J. Underwood and S. L. Cumbaa. 2010. Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontology 53:903-944

Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2022

See also Cook et al. 2011 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Isurolamna, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Serratolamnidae

Subtaxa: Archaeolamna Telodontaspis

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Type: Archaeolamna

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (2 collections), Canada (10: Alberta, Saskatchewan), France (7), Germany (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (1), Sweden (6), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (50: Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 93 collections including 101 occurrences

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