Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Alternative spellings: Carcharhininae, Carcharinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhiniformes according to K. M. Cantalice et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Adnet et al. 2020, Bendix-Almgreen 1983, Carnevale et al. 2014, Case 1981, Cassier 1966, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Collareta et al. 2022, Compagno 2005, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Engelbrecht et al. 2017, Fourriére et al. 2014, Hay 1902, Kent 2018, Long 1992, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Szabo et al. 2017, Tabuce et al. 2005, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood 2006, Verma 2024, Villafaña et al. 2020 and Weiler 1938
Sister taxa: Corysodon, Florenceodontidae, Galeocerdidae, Galeocerdonidae, Hemigaleidae, Leptochariidae, Platyrhizodon, Proscylliidae, Pseudoscyliorhinidae, Pseudotriakidae, Pterolamiops, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae, Triakidae
Subtaxa: Alopiopsis Aprionodon Archaeogaleus Carcharhininae Carcharhinus Danogaleus Eogaleus Glyphis Hypoprion Isogomphodon Lamiopsis Loxodon Misrichthys Nasolamia Negaprion Physodon Prionace Pseudabdounia Rhizoprionodon Scoliodontinae Triaenodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (2 collections), Ecuador (2), Japan (3), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (14: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (2), Chile (2), Colombia (1), Ecuador (4), Greece (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• MN 13 of Portugal (2)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), Mexico (3), Panama (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Austria (8), Belgium (2), Brazil (6), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (6), France (12), Germany (2), Grenada (5), Hungary (2), India (12), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (28), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Mexico (5), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (28), Peru (10), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Sri Lanka (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (34: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (10)
• Neogene of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Japan (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (6), United States (7: Alabama, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Argentina (2), Barbados (3), Chile (1), Egypt (35), India (3), Italy (3), Jordan (2), Morocco (10), Namibia (1), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (4), Senegal (3), Togo (1), Tonga (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (16), United States (42: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (4)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (13), Togo (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
Total: 481 collections including 1074 occurrences