Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Alternative spelling: Carchariinae
Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, David 1943, Eastman 1904, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Leriche 1942, Miller 1967 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, Cetorhinidae, Cretoxyrhinidae, Eoptolamnidae, Haimirichiidae, Hybodus dispar, Isurolamna, Lamna (Odontaspis) ornata, Lamnidae, Megachasmidae, Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae, Orthodon, Otodontidae, Palaeocarcharias, Paraisuridae, Pseudisurus, Pseudocarcharidae, Pseudocarchariidae, Pseudocoracidae, Pseudoisurus tomosus, Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, Serratolamnidae
Subtaxa: Carcharias Oxytes Triglochis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), France (1), South Africa (1), United States (9: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), South Africa (1)
• Neogene of South Pacific (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Austria (8), Belgium (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (10), Germany (10), Grenada (1), Hungary (2), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (9), Malta (5), the Netherlands (3), Peru (4), Poland (2), Portugal (4), Slovakia (4), Spain (6), United States (14: California, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (4), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), Romania (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (2), Australia (3), Barbados (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (1), Egypt (14), Germany (1), India (1), Jamaica (1), Jordan (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Senegal (1), Tonga (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (25), United States (18: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Austria (2), Denmark (1), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (6), Sweden (2), United States (4: Arkansas, California, Mississippi, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Australia (3), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (12), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Sweden (7), Syria (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (63: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 387 collections including 493 occurrences