Superfamily Orectoloboidea Maylor 2012 (carpet shark)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes

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

See also Ebersole et al. 2019 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxon: Hemiscyllioidea

Subtaxa: Ginglymostomatidae

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida, Georgia collections)

• Blancan of Mexico (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (4), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), France (6), Germany (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Oman (1), Pakistan (2), Puerto Rico (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Barbados (2), Brazil (1), Egypt (5), Mexico (1), Morocco (9), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (22: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), India (1), Morocco (13), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Togo (1), United States (3: Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), France (9), Israel (1), Jordan (5), Lithuania (3), Mali (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (19), the Netherlands (1), Niger (1), Spain (4), Syria (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (37: Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 206 collections including 297 occurrences

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