Carcharias Rafinesque 1810 (sand shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae

Alternative spelling: Squalus (Carcharias)

Synonym: Eugomphodus Gill 1862

Parent taxon: Carchariidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024

See also Agassiz 1835, Alessandri 1896, Antunes and Balbino 2003, Arambourg 1927, Biddle 1993, Bogan and Agnolin 2010, Bohm 1926, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cantalice et al. 2019, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cappetta and Corral 1999, Cappetta et al. 2019, Cappetta and Nolf 2005, Case 1981, Case 1991, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Cicimurri 2003, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Corral et al. 2016, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, David 1943, Donovan and Gunter 2001, Eastman 1904, Eastman 1908, Gibbes 1847, Guinot et al. 2023, Guinot et al. 2013, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kriwet 1999, Landini et al. 2019, Long 1992, Long and Stilwell 2000, Marsili et al. 2007, Miller 1967, Mors et al. 2000, Nagao 1928, Otero et al. 2013, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Shimada 1997, Shimada and Martin 2008, Shimada et al. 2006, Siverson 1992, Siverson 1996, Siverson 1997, Szabo et al. 2017, Tabuce et al. 2005, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Villafaña et al. 2020, Woodward 1889, Yabe and Hirayama 1998 and Zalmout and Mustafa 2001

Sister taxa: Oxytes, Triglochis

Subtaxa: Carcharias (Odontaspis) Carcharias aasenensis Carcharias acutissima Carcharias acutissimus Carcharias acutus Carcharias adneti Carcharias clavata Carcharias clavatus Carcharias collata Carcharias dominguei Carcharias duplex Carcharias eocaenus Carcharias gibbesii Carcharias gracilis Carcharias gustrowensis Carcharias hardingi Carcharias holmdelensis Carcharias hopei Carcharias latus Carcharias lomitae Carcharias melanopterus Carcharias ornatus Carcharias polygyrus Carcharias reticulata Carcharias samhammeri Carcharias sanctaecrucis Carcharias taurus Carcharias tenuis Carcharias tenuis Carcharias victoriae Carcharias virgatulus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), France (1), South Africa (1), United States (9: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), United States (2: California, North Carolina)

• MN 13 of Portugal (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (3), Australia (6), Austria (8), Belgium (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (10), Germany (10), Grenada (1), Hungary (2), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (9), Malta (5), the Netherlands (3), Peru (4), Poland (2), Portugal (4), Slovakia (4), Spain (6), United States (14: California, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)

• Neogene of South Pacific (1), United States (1: California)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (4), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), Romania (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (2), Australia (3), Barbados (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (1), Egypt (14), Germany (1), India (1), Jamaica (1), Jordan (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Senegal (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (25), United States (18: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)

• Paleocene of Austria (2), Denmark (1), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (6), Sweden (2), United States (5: Arkansas, California, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Australia (3), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (12), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Sweden (7), Syria (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (63: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)

Total: 385 collections including 491 occurrences

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