Carcharias

Carcharias Temporal range: Late Cretaceous to present
Sand tiger shark, (Carcharias taurus), the last extant member of the genus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Subdivision:	Selachimorpha
Order:	Lamniformes
Family:	Odontaspididae
Genus:	Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810

Carcharias is a genus of mackerel sharks belonging to the family Odontaspididae (sand sharks). Once bearing many prehistoric species, all have gone extinct with the exception of the critically endangered sand tiger shark.