Order Hexanchiformes de Buen 1926 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Hexanchiformes

Parent taxon: Squalomorphii according to S. Stumpf and J. Kriwet 2019

See also Bogan et al. 2016, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Carnevale 2007, Cione and Reguero 1994, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Kent 2018, Long 2011, Long et al. 1993, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Rees 2000, Sepkoski 2002, Thies 1983, Underwood 2006 and Underwood and Ward 2004

Sister taxa: Hexanchida, Pristiophoriformes

Subtaxa: Chlamydoselachidae Crassonotidae Eonotidanus Heptranchidae Hexanchidae Hexanchoidei Komoksodontidae Paraheptranchias Paranotidanus Pseudonotidanidae Thrinax Weltonia

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), United States (4: California, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (5), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Chile (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), Denmark (2), Ecuador (1), France (7), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (2), Japan (7), Malta (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), United States (18: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Japan (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Ukraine (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (3), Australia (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Egypt (8), France (1), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Namibia (1), New Zealand (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (10), United States (8: New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (1)

• Paleocene of Austria (7), Denmark (1), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Sweden (2), United States (3: California, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Austria (7), Canada (2: British Columbia), France (4), Germany (4), Greece (1), India (1), Israel (5), Japan (12), Lebanon (2), Lithuania (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Syria (3), the United Kingdom (49), United States (4: California, South Dakota, Texas)

• Jurassic of Belgium (1), France (3), Germany (6), Poland (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Permian of Japan (1)

Total: 299 collections including 381 occurrences

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