Family Cetorhinidae Gill 1862 (basking shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cetorhinidae

Parent taxon: Lamniformes according to B. W. Kent 2018

See also Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cione and Reguero 1998, Duffin 1998, Jordan 1963, Kalabis and Schultz 1974, Nelson et al. 2016, Přikryl et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Schultz 1978 and Welton 2013

Sister taxa: Acutalamna, Alopiidae, Anacoracidae, Aquilolamnidae, Archaeolamnidae, Carchariidae, Carchariolamna, Cardabiodontidae, 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: Caucasochasma Cetorhinus Keasius Pseudocetorhinus

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic suspension feeder-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), United States (2: California, Oregon)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), United States (4: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Belgium (4), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (2), Germany (18), Japan (4), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (4), United States (13: California, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Washington)

• Oligocene of Belgium (2), the Czech Republic (2), France (2), Germany (15), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: California, South Carolina)

• Eocene to Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Oregon)

• Triassic of France (3), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 101 collections including 104 occurrences

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