Rhizoprionodon Whitley 1929 (sharpnose shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae

Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013

See also Adnet et al. 2007, Adnet et al. 2020, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Case 1981, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Ebersole et al. 2019, Kent 2018, Maisch et al. 2014, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Villafaña et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhininae, Carcharhinus, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Negaprion, Physodon, Physogaleus, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Scoliodon, Scoliodontinae, Triaenodon

Subtaxa: Rhizoprionodon ganntourensis Rhizoprionodon lalandii Rhizoprionodon longurio Rhizoprionodon taxandriae

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ecuador (2 collections), United States (5: California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Libya (1), United States (2: Florida, South Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Mexico (1)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (4), France (7), Germany (1), India (1), Malta (2), Mexico (1), Panama (5), Portugal (1), United States (9: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (3), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Egypt (20), Jordan (2), Morocco (7), Pakistan (1), Senegal (2), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (2), United States (13: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1)

Total: 110 collections including 117 occurrences

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