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Mitsukurinidae (goblin shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae

Taxonomy

Mitsukurinidae was named by Jordan (1898). It is extant.

It was assigned to Lamnoidei by Jordan (1963); to Scapanorhynchoidea by Herman (1977); to Euselachii by Case (1979); to Squatinoidei by Case and Schwimmer (1988); to Odontaspidoidea by Müller and Diedrich (1991); to Orectolobiformes by Long (1992); to Neoselachii by Underwood (2006); and to Lamniformes by Biddle (1993), Cahuzac et al. (2007), Nelson et al. (2016), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Villafaña et al. (2020).

Subtaxa

Anomotodon, Mitsukurina, Rhinognathus, Scapanorhynchus, Striatolamia, Woellsteinia

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1898	Mitsukurinidae Jordan
1963	Mitsukurinidae Jordan p. 599
1977	Mitsukurinidae Herman p. 167
1979	Mitsukurinidae Case p. 79
1988	Mitsukurinidae Case and Schwimmer p. 294
1991	Mitsukurinidae Müller and Diedrich p. 28
1992	Mitsukurinidae Long p. 27
1993	Mitsukurinidae Biddle p. 203
2006	Mitsukurinidae Underwood p. 234
2007	Mitsukurinidae Cahuzac et al. p. 21
2016	Mitsukurinidae Nelson et al. p. 64
2019	Mitsukurinidae Ebersole et al. p. 30
2020	Mitsukurinidae Villafaña et al. p. 733

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Chondrichthyes

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii	()
—	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Galeomorphii	Compagno 1973
order	Lamniformes	Berg 1958
family	Mitsukurinidae	Jordan 1898
family	Mitsukurinidae	Jordan 1898

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Mitsukurinidae Jordan 1898 [goblin shark]

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G. †Anomotodon Arambourg 1952

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†Anomotodon genaulti Guinot et al. 2013

†Anomotodon hermani Siverson 1992

†Anomotodon multidenticulata Long 1992

†Anomotodon plicatus Arambourg 1952

†Anomotodon principalis Cappetta 1975

G. Mitsukurina Jordan 1898

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†Mitsukurina lineata Probst 1879

G. †Rhinognathus Davis 1887

G. †Scapanorhynchus Woodward 1889

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†Scapanorhynchus elongatus Woodward 1889

†Scapanorhynchus lewisi Davis 1887

†Scapanorhynchus minimus Landemaine 1991

†Scapanorhynchus perssoni Siverson 1992

†Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon Sokolov 1978

†Scapanorhynchus puercoensis Bourdon et al. 2011

†Scapanorhynchus rapax Quaas 1902

†Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843

Invalid names: Lamna hectori Davis 1888 [synonym]

†Scapanorhynchus subulatus Agassiz 1843

Invalid names: Lamna carinata Davis 1888 [synonym], Odontaspis kaikoraensis Davis 1888 [synonym]

†Scapanorhynchus tenuis Case et al. 2001

†Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852

Invalid names: Odontaspis malletiana White 1956 [synonym]

†Scapanorhynchus trigeri Coquand 1859

G. †Striatolamia Glikman 1964

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†Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838

Invalid names: Odontaspis elegans Agassiz 1838 [synonym]

†Striatolamia striata Winkler 1874

G. †Woellsteinia Reinecke et al. 2001

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†Woellsteinia kozlovi Adnet 2006

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Created:

2009-07-21 07:05:21

Modified:

2009-07-21 09:05:21

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Barremian to the top of the Pliocene or 129.40000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 125.0 Ma

Collections (329 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Cretaceous	145.0 - 66.0	USA (Oregon)	Scapanorhynchus sp. (200871)
Barremian	129.4 - 125.0	Japan (Gunma)	Scapanorhynchus sp. (229065)
Barremian - Albian	129.4 - 100.5	Tunisia (Medinine)	Scapanorhynchus sp. (166013)
Aptian	125.0 - 113.0	Japan (Iwate)	Anomatodon sp. (210766) Scapanorhynchus sp. (210765) Scapanorhynchus sp., Anomatodon sp. (210764)
Late/Upper Aptian	122.46 - 113.0	France	Anomotodon principialis (214869)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Switzerland	Lamna subulata (2237)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	USA (Oregon)	Scapanorhynchus sp. (229463)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Japan (Iwate)	Anomatodon sp. (210763)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	United Kingdom (England)	Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon (213351) Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon, Anomotodon principalis (213350)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Poland	Anomotodon sp. (213375)
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	105.3 - 93.5	Kazakhstan	Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon (175010)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Australia (Western Australia)	Anomotodon sp. (215794)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Germany (Westphalia)	Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon (210063)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	USA (Arkansas)	Scapanorhynchus texanus (223862)
Late/Upper Cretaceous	100.5 - 66.0	Japan (Hokkaido)	Scapanorhynchus sp. (161434) Scapanorhynchus sp., Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon, Anomatodon sp. (161435)
Late/Upper Cretaceous	100.5 - 66.0	Brazil (Pernambuco)	Scapanorhynchus subulatus (167994)
Senonian - Maastrichtian	100.5 - 66.0	Jordan	Scapanorhynchus texanus (36256)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	France (Poitou-Charentes)	Scapanorhynchus minimus (73862 73863 77229 77230 77232 77233)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Germany	Scapanorhynchus sp. (12578 12579 12580 12581)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	United Kingdom (England)	Anomotodon principalis (213355) Scapanorhynchus minimus, Anomotodon principalis (213567)