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Cosmopolitodus
Taxonomy
Cosmopolitodus was named by Glükman (1964).
It was assigned to Carcharodontidae by Glükman (1964) and Herman (1977); and to Lamnidae by Cahuzac et al. (2007), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Szabo et al. (2017) and Landini et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Carcharodontidae by Glükman (1964) and Herman (1977); and to Lamnidae by Cahuzac et al. (2007), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Szabo et al. (2017) and Landini et al. (2019).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1964 | Cosmopolitodus Glükman p. 340 |
| 1977 | Cosmopolitodus Herman p. 166 |
| 2007 | Cosmopolitodus Cahuzac et al. p. 17 |
| 2015 | Cosmopolitodus Reinecke and Radwanski p. 9 |
| 2017 | Cosmopolitodus Szabo et al. |
| 2019 | Cosmopolitodus Landini et al. p. 359 |
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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.
G. †Cosmopolitodus Glükman 1964
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†Cosmopolitodus plicatilis Agassiz 1843
†Cosmopolitodus xiphodon Agassiz 1838
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Aquitanian to the top of the Zanclean or 23.03000 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquitanian | Hungary (Esztergom) | C. sp. (186636) | |
| Burdigalian | Peru (Ica) | C. plicatilis (100330) | |
| Burdigalian | Slovakia | Oxyrhina xiphodon (48642) | |
| Tortonian | Panama (Colon) | Carcharodon plicatilis (160781) | |
| Tortonian | Argentina (Entre Rios) | Carcharodon plicatilis (140010) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | Panama (Colon) | Carcharodon plicatilis (168112) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Argentina (Chubut) | Isurus xiphodon (211703) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Isurus xiphodon (52582) | |
| Zanclean | Italy | C. plicatilis (204946) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Netherlands (Noord-Brabant) | C. escheri (59003) |