Ginglymostoma Müller and Henle 1838 (nurse shark)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae

Alternative spelling: Gynglymostoma

Synonym: Acrodobatis Leidy 1877

Parent taxon: Ginglymostomatidae according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta and Case 1975, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1991, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Leriche 1942, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Tabaste 1963, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, White 1926 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: Cantioscyllium, Delpitoscyllium, Ganntouria, Hologinglymostoma, Nebrius, Plicatoscyllium, Protoginglymostoma, Pseudoginglymostoma

Subtaxa: Ginglymostoma angolense Ginglymostoma botmaense Ginglymostoma chenanei Ginglymostoma cirratum Ginglymostoma delfortriei Ginglymostoma erramii Ginglymostoma khouribgaense Ginglymostoma lithuanica Ginglymostoma maroccanum Ginglymostoma obliquum Ginglymostoma pectinatum Ginglymostoma sokotoense Ginglymostoma subafricanum Ginglymostoma ypresiensis

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Type: Squalus cirratus

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida, Georgia collections)

• Blancan of Mexico (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), France (6), Germany (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Barbados (2), Brazil (1), Morocco (6), Nigeria (2), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), United States (6: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), India (1), Morocco (12), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Togo (1), United States (2: Arkansas, Mississippi)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of Israel (1), Lithuania (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (11), Niger (1), United States (4: Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, Texas)

Total: 84 collections including 101 occurrences

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