Echinorhinus (shark)

Chondrichthyes - Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae

Parent taxon: Echinorhinidae according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019

See also Adnet et al. 2012, Bogan et al. 2016, Guinot et al. 2014, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kitamura 2013, Leriche 1926, Purdy et al. 2001 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Echinorhinus blakei Echinorhinus lapaoi Echinorhinus spinosus Echinorhinus vielhus Echinorhinus wadanohanaensis

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Type: Squalus spinosus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)

• Miocene of United States (2: California, North Carolina)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of United States (1: California)

• Eocene of Barbados (1), Ukraine (2), United States (1: Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (1), France (2), Japan (2)

Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence

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