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

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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

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