Palaeogaleus Gurr 1963 (hound shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

Parent taxon: Triakidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024

See also Cappetta and Corral 1999, Corral et al. 2016, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Hoganson et al. 2019, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Underwood and Ward 2008

Sister taxa: Archaeotriakis, Galeorhininae, Galeorhinus, Hypogaleus, Mustelus, Pachygaleus, Palaeotriakis, Paratriakis, Squatigaleus, Triakinae, Triakini, Triakis, Xystrogaleus

Subtaxa: Palaeogaleus brivesi Palaeogaleus dahmanii Palaeogaleus faujasi Palaeogaleus havreensis Palaeogaleus larachei Palaeogaleus navarroensis Palaeogaleus prior Palaeogaleus sublaevis Palaeogaleus vincenti

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of France (1 collection), Morocco (1), United States (1: Virginia)

• Paleocene of Austria (5), Morocco (15), United States (2: Arkansas, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of France (2), Germany (1), Morocco (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (8: North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas)

Total: 51 collections including 62 occurrences

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