Hemipristis Agassiz 1835 (ground shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1835. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (5me livraison)

Parent taxon: Hemigaleidae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022

See also Adnet et al. 2007, Adnet et al. 2020, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cantalice et al. 2019, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Case 1981, Casier 1958, Chandler et al. 2006, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Deraniyagala 1969, Eastman 1908, Ebersole et al. 2019, Gibbes 1847, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Landini et al. 2019, Leriche 1942, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998

Sister taxa: Chaenogaleus, Hemigaleus, Moerigaleus, Paragaleus

Subtaxa: Hemipristis curvatus Hemipristis cyclodonta Hemipristis elongata Hemipristis elongatus Hemipristis heteropleurus Hemipristis lavigniensis Hemipristis serra Hemipristis wyattdurhami

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (3: Alabama, Florida, South Carolina collections)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Ecuador (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (3), Brazil (5), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (1), Fiji (1), France (11), Germany (1), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Italy (2), Japan (6), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Mexico (4), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (25), Peru (5), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (37: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (8)

• Neogene of United States (1: California)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (2), United States (5: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Barbados (3), Egypt (17), India (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Tunisia (1), United States (14: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina), Western Sahara (3)

• Triassic of France (1)

Total: 210 collections including 214 occurrences

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