Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (11me livraison) 73-140
Parent taxon: Otodontidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013
See also Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Davis 1888, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2019, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Leidy 1873, Maisch et al. 2014, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Szabo et al. 2017 and Trif et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Carcharocles, Cretolamna, Kenolamna, Megalolamna, Megaselachus, Palaeocarcharodon, Parotodus
Subtaxa: Otodus (Otodus) Otodus apiculatus Otodus chubutensis Otodus isoelicus Otodus lanceolatus Otodus levis Otodus macrotus Otodus megalodon Otodus obliquus Otodus recticonus Otodus sokolovi Otodus subplicatus Otodus tricuspis Otodus trigonatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Blancan of Mexico (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Antigua and Barbuda (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Ecuador (2), Italy (8), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Portugal (1), South Africa (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (10: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• MN 13 of Portugal (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (1), Cuba (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Portugal (1), United States (4: California, Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Barbados (1), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (2), Madagascar (1), Nigeria (1), South Pacific (1), United States (2: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (9), Austria (8), Belgium (2), Brunei Darussalam (2), Chile (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (10), Germany (3), Greece (1), Grenada (1), India (3), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (26), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Mexico (6), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (5), Oman (1), Panama (21), Peru (13), Poland (2), Portugal (5), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (3), South Africa (2), Spain (5), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), United States (54: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (7)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), Egypt (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Australia (3), Barbados (1), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), the United Kingdom (30), United States (12: Alabama, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia), Western Sahara (3)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Kazakhstan (2), United States (14: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Cenozoic of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1), United States (1: North Dakota)
Total: 380 collections including 413 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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