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Carcharias virgatulus
Taxonomy
Carcharias virgatulus was named by Jordan and Hanibal (1923). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 1132 - Pacific Beach, which is in a Piacenzian marine horizon in the San Diego Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1923 | Carcharias virgatulus Jordan and Hanibal p. 46 figs. Plate III. t. ll. |
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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.
†Carcharias virgatulus Jordan and Hanibal 1923
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2023, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Carcharias virgatulus (type locality: 206342) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Carcharias virgatulus (52242) |