Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Dalatiidae
Parent taxon: Squaliformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Adnet et al. 2008, Adnet et al. 2006, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Nelson et al. 2016, Sykes 1971, Underwood and Schlogl 2013, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Welton 2016
Sister taxa: Centrophoridae, Centropterus, Dalatioidea, Etmopteridae, Fredipristis, Gibbechinorhinus, Oxynotidae, Paraechinorhinus, Pseudoechinorhinus, Scymnorhinidae, Somniosidae, Squalidae, Squalogaleus
Subtaxa: Acrosqualiolus Angoumeius Dalatias Eosqualiolus Hessinodon Isistius Oligodalatias Squaliodalatias Squaliolus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (3 collections)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (6), New Zealand (2), Panama (2), Slovakia (9), South Korea (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1), United States (4: California, Oregon)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Barbados (5), France (4), New Zealand (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), Lithuania (1)
Total: 75 collections including 95 occurrences