Family Callorhynchidae Garman 1901 (plownose chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae

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

Sister taxa: Arctacanthus, Chimaeridae, Chimaeroidei, Chimeroidei, Crassidonta, Echinochimaeroidei, Icthypriapus, Myracanthiodei, Myriacanthoidei, Squalorajoidei

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Australia (2 collections), New Zealand (1)

• Miocene of Australia (2), Peru (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Chile (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (3)

• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (11: Alabama, California, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleogene of Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Australia (5), Canada (2: Alberta), France (1), Kazakhstan (4), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (15), the United Kingdom (1), United States (33: California, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota), Uzbekistan (1)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (5)

Total: 104 collections including 114 occurrences

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