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Cretalamna appendiculata

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae

Taxonomy

Lamna appendiculata was named by Agassiz (1835).

It was recombined as Otodus appendiculatus by Agassiz (1838), Agassiz (1843) and Hay (1902); it was corrected as Lamna appendiculatus by Woodward (1889); it was recombined as Cretolamna appendiculata by Cappetta and Case (1975), Itoigawa (1977), Case (1979), Case and Schwimmer (1988), Case (1989), Case (1991), Müller and Diedrich (1991), Siverson (1992), Thies and Müller (1993), Siverson (1996), Shimada (1996), Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena (1996), Cappetta and Corral (1999), Cappetta and Case (1999), Cappetta and Odin (2001) and Corral et al. (2016); it was misspelled as Otodus appendiculatis by Gibbes (1847), Chapman (1918), Dalinkevičius (1935), Rapp (1946), Applegate (1970) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); it was recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata by Shimada (2006), Shimada et al. (2006), Shimada (2007), Shimada and Martin (2008), Bogan and Agnolin (2010), Underwood et al. (2011), Cook et al. (2013), Siversson et al. (2015), Bice and Shimada (2016), Amalfitano et al. (2020) and Maisch et al. (2021).

Subspecies

Cretolamna appendiculata appendiculata

Synonyms

Otodus latus was named by Agassiz (1838).

It was recombined as Lamna lata by Woodward (1889); it was recombined as Cretolamna appendiculata lata by Cappetta and Case (1975), Itoigawa (1977) and Case (1979); it was synonymized subjectively with Cretolamna appendiculata by Case and Schwimmer (1988); it was synonymized subjectively with Cretalamna appendiculata by Shimada et al. (2006).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1835	Lamna appendiculata Agassiz p. 54
1838	Otodus appendiculatus Agassiz figs. Pl 32, figs 1-25
1838	Otodus latus Agassiz figs. Pl 32, fig 26
1843	Otodus appendiculatus Agassiz p. 270
1843	Otodus latus Agassiz p. 271
1847	Otodus appendiculatis Gibbes p. 199
1889	Lamna appendiculatus Woodward p. 393
1889	Lamna lata Woodward p. 397
1902	Otodus appendiculatus Hay p. 304
1918	Lamna appendiculata Chapman p. 14
1935	Lamna appendiculata Dalinkevičius p. 271 figs. Pl 5, figs 104-109
1946	Lamna appendiculata Rapp p. 510
1970	Lamna appendiculata Applegate p. 396
1975	Cretolamna appendiculata Cappetta and Case p. 21 figs. Pl 3, figs 10-28
1975	Cretolamna appendiculata lata Cappetta and Case p. 21 figs. Pl 3, figs 10-28
1977	Cretolamna appendiculata Itoigawa p. 132
1977	Cretolamna appendiculata lata Itoigawa p. 132
1979	Cretolamna appendiculata Case p. 83
1979	Cretolamna appendiculata lata Case p. 83
1981	Lamna appendiculata Thurmond and Jones p. 53
1988	Cretolamna appendiculata Case and Schwimmer p. 295
1989	Cretolamna appendiculata Case p. 67 fig. 2A,B
1991	Cretolamna appendiculata Case p. 6 figs. Pl 1, fig 3
1991	Cretolamna appendiculata Müller and Diedrich p. 31
1992	Cretolamna appendiculata Siverson p. 528 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-17
1993	Cretolamna appendiculata Thies and Müller p. 102
1996	Cretolamna appendiculata Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena p. 26
1996	Cretolamna appendiculata Shimada p. 8 figs. 5D-E
1996	Cretolamna appendiculata Siverson p. 828 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-8
1999	Cretolamna appendiculata Cappetta and Case p. 22 figs. Pl 6, fig 10; text-figs 5,6
1999	Cretolamna appendiculata Cappetta and Corral p. 346 fig. 3
2001	Cretolamna appendiculata Cappetta and Odin p. 649 figs. Pl, fig 4
2006	Cretalamna appendiculata Shimada p. 167 fig. 4E
2006	Cretalamna appendiculata Shimada et al. p. 16 figs. 10.5-10.8
2007	Cretalamna appendiculata Shimada p. 584 figs. 1-4,6-10
2008	Cretalamna appendiculata Shimada and Martin p. 94 fig. 6G
2010	Cretalamna appendiculata Bogan and Agnolin
2011	Cretalamna appendiculata Underwood et al. p. 543 figs. 4A-L
2013	Cretalamna appendiculata Cook et al. p. 574 fig. 11N
2015	Cretalamna appendiculata Siversson et al. p. 343 fig. 2,3
2016	Cretalamna appendiculata Bice and Shimada p. 176 fig. 3A,B
2016	Cretolamna appendiculata Corral et al. p. 645 fig. 6A,B
2020	Cretalamna appendiculata Amalfitano et al. p. 265 figs. 4A-C
2021	Cretalamna appendiculata Maisch et al. pp. 5, 14, 21 figs. 6I-T, 11C-D

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Chondrichthyes

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii	()
—	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Galeomorphii	Compagno 1973
order	Lamniformes	Berg 1958
family	Otodontidae
genus	Cretalamna	Glikman 1958
species	appendiculata	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835

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Invalid names: Otodus latus Agassiz 1838 [synonym]

†Cretolamna appendiculata appendiculata Itoigawa 1977

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Created:

2009-07-21 07:05:21

Modified:

2009-07-21 09:05:21

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

References: Wagner 2023, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Serravallian or 105.30000 to 11.62000 Ma

Collections (147 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	France	Otodus appendiculatus (2166)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	USA (Texas)	Cretolamna appendiculata (52126 213307)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	United Kingdom (England)	Lamna appendiculata (94253)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Lithuania	Lamna appendiculata (213709 213710)
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	105.3 - 93.5	Kazakhstan	Cretalamna appendiculata (175010)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Germany (Westphalia)	Cretolamna appendiculata (210063)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	USA (Arkansas)	Cretolamna appendiculata (223862)
Cenomanian - Turonian	100.5 - 89.8	Japan (Hokkaido)	Cretolamna appendiculata (210760)
Late/Upper Cretaceous	100.5 - 66.0	Brazil (Pernambuco)	Lamna appendiculata (167994)
Late/Upper Cretaceous	100.5 - 66.0	Japan (Hokkaido)	Cretolamna appendiculata (161435)
Youngest occurrences
Time interval	Ma	Country or state	PBDB collection number
Early/Lower Paleocene	66.0 - 61.7	USA (California)	Lamna appendiculata (192824)
Early/Lower Paleocene	66.0 - 61.7	USA (New Jersey)	Cretolamna appendiculata (62840)
Danian	66.0 - 61.6	Denmark	Lamna appendiculata (89866)
Middle Paleocene	61.7 - 58.7	USA (California)	Lamna appendiculata (192832)
Thanetian	59.2 - 56.0	USA (California)	Lamna appendiculata (189952)
Clarkforkian	56.2 - 54.9	USA (South Carolina)	Cretolamna appendiculata (15074)
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (Virginia)	Cretolamna appendiculata (15595)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	USA (New Jersey)	Otodus appendiculatus (18587)
Langhian	15.97 - 13.82	France	Cretolamna appendiculata (90354)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	USA (Maryland)	Otodus appendiculatus (55396)