Carcharodon

Carcharodon
Temporal range:
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Lamnidae
Genus: Carcharodon
A. Smith, 1838
Type species
Carcharodon carcharias
Species

Carcharodon (meaning "jagged/sharp tooth")[1] is a genus of sharks within the family Lamnidae, colloquially called the "white sharks." The only extant member is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). The extant species was preceded by a number of fossil (extinct) species including C. hubbelli and C. hastalis.[2] The first appearance of the genus may have been as early as the Early Miocene or Late Oligocene.[3]

  1. ^ "Carcharodon", Wiktionary, 2022-01-02, retrieved 2023-01-04
  2. ^ Ehret, D.J., Macfadden, B.J., Jones, D.S., DeVries, T.J., Foster, D.A. and Salas-Gismondi, R. (2012), Origin of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru. Palaeontology, 55: 1139-1153. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01201.x
  3. ^ Trif, N.; Ciobanu, R.; Codrea, V. (2016). "The first record of the giant shark Otodus megalodon (Agassiz, 1835) from Romania". Brukenthal, Acta Musei. 11 (3): 507–526.

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