Family Echinorhinidae (shark)
Chondrichthyes - Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae
Parent taxon: Echinorhiniformes according to S. Bogan et al. 2016
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Kent 2018, Nelson et al. 2016 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Echinorhinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Miocene of United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), Ukraine (2), United States (1: Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (1), France (2), Israel (1), Japan (2), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence