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Euselachii

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	56961	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=56961

Rank

infraclass (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Euselachii

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
superorder	Euselachii

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Plagiostomata	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Selachii	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Euselachii	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Cassier, 1966
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Euselachiformes	stated without evidence	Case, 1978
Euselachii	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated with evidence	Zangerl, 1981
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Cappetta, 1987
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Euselachiformes	stated without evidence	Case and Schwimmer, 1988
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Elasmobranchii	implied	Murry, 1989
Euselachii	unranked clade	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Cappetta, 1992
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated with evidence	Duffin, 1998
Euselachii	order	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Williams, 2001
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated with evidence	Duffin, 2001
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated with evidence	Delsate, 2003
Euselachii	unranked clade	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Forey et al., 2003
Euselachii	unranked clade	belongs to Cladodontomorphi	stated with evidence	Ginter et al., 2010
Euselachii	infraclass	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated with evidence	Long, 2011
Euselachii	superorder	belongs to Elasmobranchii	stated without evidence	Pinheiro et al., 2013
Euselachii	unranked clade	belongs to Chondrichthyes	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

2,173

Extant Size (PBDB)

270 (12%)

First Recorded Appearance

409 - 403 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Chondrichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Chondrichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ctenacanthiformes ✝ order	listed (PBDB)	237	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	23.0 Ma Miocene
Dasyatiformes suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Galei ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Musteliformes suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Notidaniformes suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Scyliorhiniformes suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Squatinoidei suborder	listed (PBDB)
Squatinorajiformes suborder	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Protacrodontoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)	37	383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Sphenacanthidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	24	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	265 Ma Permian
Synechodontidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Acronemus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Artiodus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Hueneichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Surcaudalus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Galeoidei unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	30	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	0 Ma Extant
Hybodontida unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	1,438	383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	7.25 Ma Miocene
Neoselachii unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	8,867	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1902	Euselachii Hay p. 274
1963	Euselachii Jordan p. 597
1966	Euselachii Cassier p. 44
1978	Euselachii Case p. 184
1979	Euselachii Case p. 79
1981	Euselachii Zangerl p. 51
1987	Euselachii Cappetta
1988	Euselachii Case and Schwimmer p. 294
1989	Euselachii Murry p. 253
1992	Euselachii Cappetta p. 640
1992	Euselachii Long p. 14
1993	Euselachii Biddle p. 196
1996	Euselachii Dica et al. p. 118
1998	Euselachii Duffin p. 160
1999	Euselachii Ivanov p. 271
2001	Euselachii Duffin

Year	Name and Author
2001	Euselachii Peng et al. p. 5
2001	Euselachii Williams p. 215
2002	Euselachii Delsate et al. p. 8
2003	Euselachii Delsate p. 4
2003	Euselachii Forey et al. p. 227
2004	Euselachii Duncan p. 419
2004	Euselachii Everhart
2007	Euselachii Kriwet et al.
2008	Euselachii Chrzastek p. 228
2008	Euselachii Kriwet p. 236
2010	Euselachii Ginter et al. p. 85
2011	Euselachii Long p. 242
2013	Euselachii Pinheiro et al.
2017	Euselachii Engelbrecht et al. p. 2
2019	Euselachii Ebersole et al. p. 15

References

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

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

Cassier F. C. (1966) Faune Ichthyologique du London Clay, 1-496

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

Zangerl R. (1981) Chondrichthyes I: Paleozoic Elasmobranchii, Handbook of Paleoichthyology 3a

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

Murry P. A. (1989) Microvertebrate fossils from the Petrified Forest and Owl Rock Members (Chinle Formation) in Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona, Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, 249-277

Cappetta H. (1992) Carcharhiniformes nouveaux (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) de l'Ypresien du Bassin de Paris, Geobios 25 2, 639-646 doi:10.1016/0016-6995(92)80103-K

Long D. J. (1992) Sharks from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12 1, 11-32

Biddle J. P. (1993) Les Elasmobranches de l'Albien inferieur et moyen (Cretace inferieur) de la Marne et de la Haute-Marne (France), Belgian Geological Survey 264, 191-240

Dica P., Ciobanu R., et al (1996) Some new batoids (Pisces, Chondrichthyes) from the late Eocene (Priabonian) of Cluj-Napoca Area, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia 41 2, 117-125

Duffin C. J. (1998) New shark remains from the British Rhaetian (latest Triassic) 1. The earliest basking shark, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 3, 157-181

Ivanov A. (1999) Late Devonian - Early Permian chondrichthyans of the Russian Arctic, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 3, 267-285

Duffin C. J. (2001) The hybodont shark, Priohybodus d'Erasmo, 1960, (Early Cretaceous, northern Africa), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133, 303-308

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Williams M. E. (2001) Tooth retention in cladodont sharks: with a comparison between primitive grasping and swallowing, and modern cutting and gouging feeding mechanisms, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 2, 214-226

Delsate D., Duffin C. J., et al (2002) A new microvertebrate fauna from the Middle Hettangian (Early Jurassic) of Fontenoille (Province of Luxembourg, south Belgium), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Belgium 48, 3-83

Delsate D. (2003) Une nouvelle faune des poissons et requins Toarciens du sud du Luxembourg (Dudelange) et de L'Allemange (Schömberg), Bulletin de l'Académie Lorrain des Sciences 42, 13-49

Forey P. L., Yi L., et al (2003) Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1 4, 227-330 doi:10.1017/S147720190300107X

Duncan M. (2004) Chondrichthyan genus Lissodus from the Lower Carboniferous of Ireland, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 3, 417-428

Everhart M. J. (2004) First record of the hybodont shark genus, "Polyacrodus" sp., (Chondrichthyes; Polyacrodontidae) from the Kiowa Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of McPherson County, Kansas, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 107 1/2, 83-87

Kriwet J., Soler-Gijón R., et al (2007) Neoselachians from the upper Campanian and lower Maatrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of the southern Pyrenees, northern Spain, Palaeontology 50 5, 1051-1071 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00695.x

Chrzastek A. (2008) Vertebrate remains from the Lower Muschelkalk of Raciborowice Górne (North-Sudetic Basin, SW Poland), Geological Quarterly 52, 225-238

Kriwet J. (2008) Anew species of extinct bullhead sharks, Paracestracion viohli sp. nov. (Neoselachii, Heterodontiformes), from the Upper Jurassic of South Germany, Acta Geologica Polonica 58 2, 235-241

Ginter M., Hampe O., et al (2010) Chondrichthyes, Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth, Handbook of Paleoichthyology 3D, 1-168

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

Pinheiro F., de Figueiredo A. E. Q., et al (2013) Planohybodus marki sp. nov., a new fresh-water hybodontid shark from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil, Cretaceous Research 41, 210-216 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.12.005

Engelbrecht A., Mörs T., et al (2017) New carcharhiniform sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the early to middle Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 6, e1371724 doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1371724

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

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