Family Etmopteridae Fowler 1941 (shark)

Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Etmopteridae

Parent taxon: Squaliformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016 and Underwood and Schlogl 2013

Sister taxa: Centrophoridae, Centropterus, Dalatiidae, Dalatioidea, Fredipristis, Gibbechinorhinus, Oxynotidae, Paraechinorhinus, Pseudoechinorhinus, Scymnorhinidae, Somniosidae, Squalidae, Squalogaleus

Subtaxa: Eoetmopterus Etmopterus Incognitorapax Miroscyllium Orthechinorhinus Paraetmopterus Proetmopterus Trigonognathus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Panama (1 collection), Slovakia (6)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Eocene of Barbados (2), France (2), Ukraine (1)

• Paleocene of Austria (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (2: British Columbia), France (1), Germany (4), Sweden (11), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 36 collections including 52 occurrences

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