Family Triakidae Gray 1851 (hound shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae

Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta 1992, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Ebersole et al. 2019, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Kent 2018, Long and Stilwell 2000, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Underwood 2006 and Underwood et al. 1999

Sister taxa: Carcharhinidae, Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae

Subtaxa: Archaeotriakis Galeorhininae Galeorhinus Hypogaleus Mustelus Pachygaleus Palaeogaleus Palaeotriakis Paratriakis Squatigaleus Triakinae Triakini Triakis Xystrogaleus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Spain (1 collection), United States (4: California)

• Pliocene of Peru (1), United States (2: California)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene of Belgium (2), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Germany (2), India (1), Japan (1), Malta (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (4), Poland (2), Portugal (2), South Africa (1), United States (8: California, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (3), United States (2: California, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Barbados (1), Egypt (6), France (3), Germany (1), India (4), Italy (2), Jordan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), Nigeria (2), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (15), United States (20: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (2)

• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)

• Paleocene of Austria (5), Brazil (1), Morocco (15), United States (5: Arkansas, California, Mississippi, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

• Cretaceous of France (11), Germany (4), Israel (2), Lebanon (2), Morocco (7), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sweden (5), Syria (2), the United Kingdom (12), United States (18: Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 229 collections including 352 occurrences

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