Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae
Parent taxon: Synechodontiformes according to S. Stumpf and J. Kriwet 2019
See also Hoganson et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Keichouodus, Mucrovenator, Orthacodontidae, Palaeospinacidae, Parascylloides, Polyfaciodus, Rhomphaiodon, Safrodus
Subtaxa: Paraorthacodus
Type: Paraorthacodus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Chile (1)
• Paleocene of France (1), New Zealand (4)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (1), France (4), Israel (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (16), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (9), United States (4: Montana, North Dakota)
• Jurassic of Denmark (1), France (6), Germany (5), Poland (2), Sweden (1)
Total: 72 collections including 79 occurrences