Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to L. V. Compagno 2005
See also Ameghino 1901, Applegate 1970, Bohm 1926, Case 1981, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Cassier 1966, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Davis 1888, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1942, Long 1992, Martin 1996, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond 1971, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Uyeno et al. 1981, Weiler 1938 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Carcharoides, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Isurus, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Selanonius, Uyenoa
Subtaxa: Lamna affinis Lamna barnitzkei Lamna biauriculata Lamna bronnii Lamna caraibaea Lamna caurina Lamna complanata Lamna compressa Lamna contortidens Lamna cornubicus Lamna crassa Lamna crassidens Lamna divergens Lamna gracilis Lamna manitobensis Lamna marginalis Lamna mediavia Lamna mudgei Lamna quinquelateralis Lamna raphiodon Lamna rupeliensis Lamna serra Lamna vincenti
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (3: California, Georgia)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), South Africa (1)
• Neogene of Japan (2), South Pacific (2), United States (3: California, Hawaii)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (6), Austria (2), Chile (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (2), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Tunisia (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (4), Azerbaijan (1), Hungary (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (2), Romania (1), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (3), Egypt (2), Japan (1), Namibia (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (3: Georgia, Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Togo (1), United States (5: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Lithuania (1), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (2), Niger (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (7), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (5: New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 107 collections including 130 occurrences
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