Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
Full reference: J. Herman. 1977. Les Sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés & paléocènes de Belgique & des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d’une biostratigraphie intercontinentale [The sharks from the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene terrains of Belgium and adjacent lands. Elements of an intercontinental biostratigraphy]. Mémoires pour servir à l’explication des Cartes géologiques et minières de la Belgique 15:1-450
Parent taxon: Hybodontoidea according to S. Stumpf and J. Kriwet 2019
See also Delsate 2003, Delsate et al. 2002, Duncan 2004, Ginter et al. 2010, Heckert 2004, Ivanov and Lebedev 2014, Klug et al. 2010, Manzanares et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016 and Rees and Underwood 2002
Sister taxa: Acrodontidae, Acrorhizodus, Asteracanthus semiverrucosus, Asteracanthus verrucosus, Diablodontus, Distobatidae, Homalodontidae, Hybodontidae, Hybodus strictus, Lamarodus, Lissodus, Polyacrodontidae, Trichorhipis, Tristychiidae
Subtaxa: Dabasacanthus Diabodus Gansuselache Hylaeobatis Isanodus Jiaodontus Lonchidion Luopingselache Parvodus Vectiselachos
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), Brazil (1), Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (2), Malaysia (1), Spain (5), Sweden (3), Thailand (2), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (18), United States (93: Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Morocco (4)
• Jurassic of Belgium (1), China (2), France (1), Germany (1), India (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Triassic of China (2), Germany (1), India (1), Japan (1), Spain (1), United States (9: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)
• Permian of China (1), Poland (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (1: Illinois)
Total: 169 collections including 202 occurrences