Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Alternative spelling: Cretalamna
Parent taxon: Otodontidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2023
See also Amalfitano et al. 2020, Bice and Shimada 2016, Bogan and Agnolin 2010, Bourdon et al. 2011, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cappetta and Case 1975, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cappetta and Corral 1999, Cappetta and Odin 2001, Case 1979, Case 1989, Case 1991, Case et al. 2001, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Cicimurri 2003, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Cook et al. 2013, Corral et al. 2016, Ebersole et al. 2022, Guinot and Carrillo-Briceño 2018, Herman 1977, Hoganson et al. 2019, Itoigawa 1977, Kriwet 1999, Maisch et al. 2021, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Sepkoski 2002, Shimada 1996, Shimada 2006, Shimada 2007, Shimada and Martin 2008, Shimada et al. 2006, Siverson 1992, Siverson 1996, Siverson 1997, Siversson et al. 2015, Siversson and Machalski 2017, Underwood et al. 2011 and Zalmout and Mustafa 2001
Sister taxa: Carcharocles, Kenolamna, Megalolamna, Megaselachus, Otodus, Palaeocarcharodon, Parotodus
Subtaxa: Cretalamna appendiculata Cretalamna catoxodon Cretalamna deschutteri Cretalamna ewelli Cretalamna feldmanni Cretalamna gertericorum Cretalamna hattini Cretalamna sarcoportheta Cretolamna biauriculata Cretolamna borealis Cretolamna marroti
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of France (1 collection), United States (2: Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (3), Pakistan (1), Senegal (1), United States (4: Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (1)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Denmark (1), United States (6: California, Mississippi, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (5), Brazil (3), Canada (2: Alberta, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (4), France (12), Germany (6), India (1), Israel (5), Italy (1), Japan (13), Jordan (8), Kazakhstan (2), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (6), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (6), Sweden (9), Syria (6), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (90: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas), Venezuela (1)
Total: 225 collections including 253 occurrences
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