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Selachii

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	80574	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=80574

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Selachii

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii
-	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
order	Selachii

Common Name

shark

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Selachii	suborder	belongs to Plagiostomi	stated with evidence	Gadow, 1898
Selachii	order	belongs to Euselachii	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Selachii	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Case, 1904
Selachii	order	belongs to Placoidea	stated without evidence	Jaekel, 1911
Selachii	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Fedorowski, 1912
Selachii	order	belongs to Plagiostomi	stated without evidence	Gunnell, 1933
Selachii	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Säve-Söderbergh, 1934
Selachii	class	belongs to Vertebrata	stated without evidence	Applegate, 1970
Selachii	order	belongs to Chondrichthyes	stated with evidence	Sykes, 1971
Selachii	order	belongs to Hybodontiformes	stated without evidence	Herman, 1975
Selachii	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Thurmond and Jones, 1981
Selachii	unranked clade	belongs to Neoselachii	stated with evidence	Long, 2011
Selachii	unranked clade	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

683

Extant Size (PBDB)

115 (17%)

First Recorded Appearance

359 - 323 Ma
Paleozoic

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Selachii)

Diet

carnivore (based on Selachii)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Säve-Söderbergh. 1934. Some points of view concerning the evolution of the Vertebrates and the classification of this group. Arkiv för Zoologi 26A(17):1-20

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Galeomorphi superorder	listed (PBDB)	4,896	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	0 Ma Extant
Squalimorphi superorder	listed (PBDB)	9	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Anacoracoidei ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Asterospondyli suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Centrobati suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Ctenacanthoidei ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Notidani suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Notidanoidei suborder	listed (PBDB)
Palaeosquali suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Rajae suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Rhinae suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Rhinoraji suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Spinacidi suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Squali suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Statodonti ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Tectospondyli suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Trirostri suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Heterodontoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)
Notidanidae family	listed (PBDB)	3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Scyllidae family	listed (PBDB)	110	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Spinacidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Trygonidae family	listed (PBDB)	8	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Cooperodon ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	9	307 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Fortscottella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	307 Ma Carboniferous	307 Ma Carboniferous
Hammondella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Idiacanthus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Kirkella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	307 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Moreyella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	307 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1898	Selachii Gadow p. 5
1902	Selacha Hay p. 274
1904	Selachii Case p. 74
1904	Selachii Eastman p. 71
1906	Selachii Andrews p. 317
1911	Selachii Jaekel p. 55
1912	Selachii Fedorowski p. 55
1916	Selachii Woodward p. 3
1933	Selachii Gunnell
1934	Selachii Säve-Söderbergh p. 17
1963	Selachii Jordan p. 590

Year	Name and Author
1970	Selachii Applegate p. 393
1971	Selachii Sykes p. 13
1975	Selachii Herman p. 17
1978	Selachii Case p. 180
1979	Selachii Case p. 79
1981	Selachii Thurmond and Jones p. 39
1987	Selachii Kumar and Loyal p. 62
1988	Selachii Case and Schwimmer p. 291
2011	Selachii Long p. 242
2019	Selachii Ebersole et al. p. 15

References

Säve-Söderbergh G. (1934) Some points of view concerning the evolution of the Vertebrates and the classification of this group, Arkiv för Zoologi 26A 17, 1-20

Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Case E. C. (1904) Systematic Paleontology: Mammalia, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene: Text, 1-58

Eastman C. R. (1904) Systematic Paleontology: Pisces, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene, Text, 71-93

Andrews C. W. (1906) , A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt, 1-324

Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252

Fedorowski J. A. (1912) Zeuglodon-Reste aus dem Kreise Zmijew, Gouvernement Charkow, Arbeiten der Naturforscher-Gesellschaft an der Kaiserlichen Universitat Charkow 45, 253-287

Woodward A. S. (1916) The fossil fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations, Palaeontographical Society, London 1915, 1-48

Gunnell F. H. (1933) Conodonts and fish remains from the Cherokee, Kansas City, and Wabaunsee Groups of Missouri and Kansas, Journal of Paleontology 7 3, 261-297

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Applegate S. P. (1970) The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3 8, 385-433

Sykes J. H. (1971) A new Dalatiid fish from the Rhaetic bone bed, Mercian Geologist 4 1, 13-22

Herman J. (1975) Les Selaciens de sterrains neocretaces and paleocenes de Belgique and des contrees limitrophes Elements d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale, Memoires pour servier a l'explications des Cartes geologiques et minieres de la Belgique 15, 1-401

Case G. R. (1978) A new selachian fauna from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160 Lfg. 1-6, 176-205

Case G. R. (1979) Cretaceous selachians from the Peedee Formation (Late Maestrichtian) of Duplin County, North Carolina, Brimleyana 2, 77-89

Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244

Kumar K., Loyal R. S. (1987) Eocene ichthyofauna from the Subathu Formation, Northwestern Himalaya, India., Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32, 60-84

Case G. R., Schwimmer D. R. (1988) Late Cretaceous Fish from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in Western Georgia, Journal of Paleontology 62 2, 290-301

Long J. A. (2011) , The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution (Second Edition), 1-287

Ebersole J. A., Cicimurri D. J., et al (2019) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, European Journal of Taxonomy 585, 1-274 doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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