Parotodus Cappetta 1980 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42

Parent taxon: Otodontidae according to H. Cappetta 1980

See also Fukata et al. 2014, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Landini et al. 2019, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998

Sister taxa: Carcharocles, Cretolamna, Kenolamna, Megalolamna, Megaselachus, Otodus, Palaeocarcharodon

Subtaxa: Parotodus benedeni Parotodus benedenii

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: South Carolina collection)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (2), Mexico (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (6), Malta (1), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Neogene of Madagascar (1)

• Oligocene of Japan (1)

• Eocene of Ukraine (1)

Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence

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