Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Parent taxon: Pseudoscapanorhynchidae according to H. M. Maisch et al. 2021
See also Bice and Shimada 2016, Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta and Case 1999, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Case et al. 1990, Cicimurri 2003, Cook et al. 2008, Cuny et al. 2004, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Sepkoski 2002, Shimada 2006, Shimada and Everhart 2019, Shimada et al. 2006, Siverson 1992, Siversson and Machalski 2017, Underwood et al. 2011 and Werner 1989
Sister taxa: Protolamna, Pseudoscapanorhynchus
Subtaxa: Cretodus crassidens Cretodus houghtonorum Cretodus longiplicatus Cretodus semiplicatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), Egypt (2), France (7), Germany (1), India (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (2), Lithuania (2), Poland (1), Tunisia (4), United States (34: Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Utah)
Total: 64 collections including 68 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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