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Carcharocles
Taxonomy
Carcharocles was named by Jordan (1923) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-l T Plio Sepkoski's reference number: 884,958]. It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon by Gottfried et al. (1996); it was reranked as Otodus (Carcharocles) by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Carcharodontidae by Jordan and Hanibal (1923); to Lamniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Lamnidae by Jordan (1963), Long (1992) and Hastings and Dooley (2017); to Otodontidae by Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Antunes and Balbino (2003), Kocsis (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Pimiento et al. (2010), Otero et al. (2013), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016), Boessenecker (2016), Kent (2018) and Landini et al. (2019); and to Otodus by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon by Gottfried et al. (1996); it was reranked as Otodus (Carcharocles) by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Carcharodontidae by Jordan and Hanibal (1923); to Lamniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Lamnidae by Jordan (1963), Long (1992) and Hastings and Dooley (2017); to Otodontidae by Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Antunes and Balbino (2003), Kocsis (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Pimiento et al. (2010), Otero et al. (2013), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016), Boessenecker (2016), Kent (2018) and Landini et al. (2019); and to Otodus by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1923 | Carcharocles Jordan |
1923 | Carcharocles Jordan and Hanibal p. 56 |
1963 | Carcharocles Jordan p. 599 |
1992 | Carcharocles Long p. 28 |
1998 | Carcharocles Yabe and Hirayama p. 46 |
2002 | Carcharocles Sepkoski |
2003 | Carcharocles Antunes and Balbino p. 144 |
2007 | Carcharocles Kocsis p. 34 |
2009 | Carcharocles Cicimurri and Knight p. 631 |
2010 | Carcharocles Pimiento et al. p. 3 |
2013 | Carcharocles Otero et al. p. 19 figs. Fg. 4: 3-8 |
2016 | Carcharocles Boessenecker p. 3 |
2016 | Carcharocles Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 84 |
2017 | Carcharocles Hastings and Dooley p. 83 |
2017 | Otodus (Carcharocles) Szabo et al. |
2018 | Carcharocles Kent p. 80 |
2019 | Otodus (Carcharocles) Boessenecker et al. p. 9 |
2019 | Otodus (Carcharocles) Ebersole et al. p. 28 |
2019 | Carcharocles Landini et al. p. 358 |
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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. †Carcharocles Jordan 1923
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†Carcharias angustidens sokolowi Jakel 1895
†Carcharocles rectus Agassiz 1856
†Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988 |
Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 47.80000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (59 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Ypresian - Lutetian | USA (Alabama) | Otodus sp. (81179) | |
Eocene | Japan (Fukuoka) | Carcharodon angustidens (161438) | |
Lutetian | Senegal | C. debrayi (133429) | |
Lutetian | Germany | C. sokolovi, C. subserratus (121968) | |
Lutetian | USA (Alabama) | C. sp. (13346) Otodus sp. (81206 209521 209523) | |
Lutetian | Togo | C. debrayi (32991) | |
Lutetian - Bartonian | Egypt | C. sokolovi (137539) | |
Middle Eocene | Ukraine (Crimea) | C. sp. (140018) | |
Middle Eocene | Uzbekistan | C. sokolowi (62573) | |
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | Egypt | C. sokolowi (62459) | |
Bartonian | USA (Alabama) | Otodus sp. (176944) | |
Bartonian | USA (North Carolina) | Procarcharodon angustidens (5387) | |
Priabonian | Jordan | C. sokolovi (32899) | |
Priabonian | USA (Mississippi) | Carcharodon angustidens (84058) | |
Priabonian | USA (Alabama) | Carcharodon angustidens (28983) | |
Priabonian | Egypt | C. sokolovi (137546 137547 137550 137551 137554 137556 137569 137579 137586) C. sokolowi (198761) | |
Priabonian | USA (Georgia) | C. angustidens (45640) | |
Late/Upper Eocene | Egypt | C. sokolowi (62468) | |
Early/Lower Oligocene | Japan (Fukuoka) | Carcharodon angustidens (161440) | |
Early/Lower Oligocene | France | C. angustidens (69805) | |
Early/Lower Oligocene | USA (Georgia) | C. aruiculatus (76716) | |
Rupelian | USA (South Carolina) | C. angustidens (223493) Otodus angustidens (182155) | |
Rupelian | Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) | Otodus angustidens (65088) | |
Oligocene | New Zealand (North Otago) | Carcharodon angustidens (134376) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene | USA (North Carolina) | C. angustidens (71651) | |
Chattian | Ecuador (Santa Elena) | C. angustidens (190942) | |
Chattian | Australia (Victoria) | Carcharodon angustidens (46166 48647 51383 51392) | |
Chattian | USA (California) | Carcharodon angustidens (11601) | |
Chattian | Australia (South Australia) | Carcharodon angustidens (45792 50070) | |
Chattian | USA (South Carolina) | C. angustidens (223492) C. sp. (97550) | |
Duntroonian | New Zealand (South Island) | Carcharodon angustidens (120295) | |
Aquitanian | Colombia (La Guajira) | C. sp. (182218) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | C. rectus (43807) | |
Miocene | New Zealand (South Island) | Carcharodon angustidens (202915) | |
Miocene | USA (South Carolina) | Carcharodon angustidens (18506) | |
Miocene - Pliocene | Chile | C. sp. (102183) | |
Burdigalian | USA (New Jersey) | Carcharodon angustidens (18587) | |
Burdigalian | Hungary | C. sp. (210623) | |
Langhian | Austria | C. sp. (55394) | |
Serravallian | USA (Maryland) | Carcharodon angustidens (55396) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (California) | C. rectus (200412) |