Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Dalatiidae
Parent taxon: Dalatiidae according to E. V. Popov et al. 2025
See also Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Cassier 1966, Jordan 1963, Kocsis 2007, Laurito 1996, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Acrosqualiolus, Angoumeius, Dalatias, Eosqualiolus, Hessinodon, Oligodalatias, Squaliodalatias, Squaliolus
Subtaxa: Isistius triangulus Isistius trituratus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2 collections), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Panama (2), Slovakia (1)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 30 collections including 31 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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