Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Parent taxon: Alopiidae according to J. A. Villafaña et al. 2020
See also Antunes and Balbino 2003, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Casier 1958, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Herman 1977, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Landini et al. 2019, Purdy et al. 2001, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Paranomotodon, Vulpecula
Subtaxa: Alopias acutidens Alopias exigua Alopias grandis Alopias latidens Alopias macrourus Alopias palatasi Alopias superciliosus Alopias vulpinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Peru (1 collection), United States (3: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Libya (1), Peru (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), France (3), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Japan (2), Malta (4), Mexico (2), Panama (5), Peru (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), United States (8: Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (2), France (1), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), Egypt (17), India (1), Jordan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina), Western Sahara (2)
Total: 86 collections including 96 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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