Carcharocles
Carcharocles is an extinct genus of sharks, belonging to the order Lamniformes.[1] They lived from the Late Eocene to the Late Pliocene. The genus usually includes the species informally known as Megalodon (i.e., Carcharocles megalodon); however, some taxonomic authorities place that species in various other genera.[2] Some authors consider the genus Carcharocles a subgenus of Otodus.[3]
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| Model of the jaws of C. megalodon at the American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | †Otodontidae |
| Genus: | †Carcharocles Hannibal & Jordan in Jordan, 1923 |
| Type species | |
| Carcharocles auriculatus Blainville, 1818 | |
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Species
- Carcharocles aksuaticus Early Eocene, 56-47.8 (Menner, 1928)
- Carcharocles sokolovi Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 35 to 30 Ma Jaekel, 1895
- Carcharocles auriculatus (type), Late Eocene to Late Oligocene, 35 to 25 Ma (Blainville, 1818)
- Carcharocles angustidens, Early Oligocene to Early Miocene, 33 to 22 Ma (Agassiz, 1843)
- Carcharocles chubutensis, Oligocene to Pliocene, 28 to 5 Ma (Ameghino, 1901)
- Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon), Early Miocene to Late Pliocene, 23 to 3.6 Ma (Agassiz, 1843) (genus disputed)
References
- Joseph S. Nelson (2006). "Order Lamniformes". Fishes of the World (4th ed.). John Wiley and Sons. pp. 57–60. ISBN 978-0-471-25031-9.
- Shimada, K.; Chandler, R. E.; Lam, O. L. T.; Tanaka, T.; Ward, D. J. (3 October 2016). "A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the 'megatoothed' clade". Historical Biology: 1–11. doi:10.1080/08912963.2016.1236795. ISSN 0891-2963.
- Otodus (Carcharocles) at Fossilworks.org
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