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Carcharhinus perseus
Taxonomy
Carcharhinus perseus was named by Adnet et al. (2007). Its type specimen is UMC-DBC-S9, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kumbi, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in the Chitarwata Formation of Pakistan.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2007 | Carcharhinus perseus Adnet et al. p. 309 |
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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.
†Carcharhinus perseus Adnet et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Rupelian or 33.90000 to 28.10000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Oligocene | Egypt | Carcharhinus perseus (187874) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Pakistan (Balochistan) | Carcharhinus perseus (78520) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Pakistan | Carcharhinus perseus (type locality: 150337) | |
| Rupelian | Pakistan | Carcharhinus perseus (150430) | |
| Oligocene | Pakistan | Carcharhinus perseus (151056) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Pakistan (Baluchistan) | Carcharhinus perseus (78362) |