Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
Parent taxon: Orectolobiformes according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2022
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Case 1978, Case 1981, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Ebersole et al. 2019, Jordan 1963, Long 1992, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Tabuce et al. 2005 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Acanthoscyllium, Akaimia, Annea, Brachaeluridae, Columbusia, Crossorhinidae, Dorsetoscyllium, Garrigascyllium, Hemiscylliidae, Heterophorcynus, Magistrauia, Mesiteia, Orectoloboidei, Ornatoscyllium, Parahemiscyllium, Parascyllioidei, Parasquatina, Rhincodontidae, Rhinocodontidae, Stegostomatidae
Subtaxa: Cederstroemia Cirriscyllium Cretorectolobus Eometlaouia Eucrossorhinus Gryphodobatis Heteroscyllium Microdontaspis Nebriinae Orectoloboides Orectolobus Restesia Squatiscyllium Synchismus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene of Australia (1), United States (2: Delaware, South Carolina)
• Eocene of France (1), Morocco (4), Senegal (1), United States (4: Alabama, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Morocco (3), Niger (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (12: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Egypt (1), France (7), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (2), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (18), United States (59: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 128 collections including 142 occurrences