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Cretoxyrhina mantelli

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae

Taxonomy

Lamna mantellii was named by Agassiz (1835).

It was recombined as Oxyrhina mantellii by Agassiz (1838), Agassiz (1843), Gibbes (1847) and Leidy (1873); it was recombined as Oxyrhina mantelli by Woodward (1889); it was recombined as Isurus mantellii by Hay (1902); it was recombined as Isurus mantelli by Applegate (1970) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); it was recombined as Cretoxyrhina mantelli by Cappetta and Case (1975), Case et al. (1990), Müller and Diedrich (1991), Siverson (1992), Siverson (1996), Shimada (1996), Shimada (1997), Underwood and Mitchell (1999), Cappetta and Case (1999), Siverson and Lindgren (2005), Shimada et al. (2006), Shimada and Martin (2008), Cook et al. (2008), Shimada and Nagrodski (2010), Bourdon et al. (2011), Nagrodski et al. (2012), Cook et al. (2013), Johnson-Ransom et al. (2016), Bice and Shimada (2016), Guinot and Carrillo-Briceño (2018), Amalfitano et al. (2020) and Jambura et al. (2024).

Synonyms

Oxyrhina extenta was named by Leidy (1873).

It was synonymized subjectively with Cretoxyrhina mantelli by Cappetta and Case (1975) and Shimada et al. (2006).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1835	Lamna mantellii Agassiz p. 54
1838	Oxyrhina mantellii Agassiz figs. Pl 33, figs 1-9
1843	Oxyrhina mantellii Agassiz p. 280
1847	Oxyrhina mantellii Gibbes p. 202
1873	Oxyrhina extenta Leidy p. 302
1873	Oxyrhina mantellii Leidy p. 302
1889	Oxyrhina mantelli Woodward p. 376
1902	Isurus mantellii Hay p. 306
1970	Isurus mantelli Applegate p. 397
1975	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Cappetta and Case p. 20 figs. Pl 5, fig 27
1981	Isurus mantelli Thurmond and Jones p. 54
1990	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Case et al. p. 1087 fig. 9
1991	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Müller and Diedrich p. 31
1992	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Siverson p. 526 figs. Pl 1, figs 18,19
1996	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Shimada p. 8 figs. 5F-H
1996	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Siverson p. 819 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-18
1997	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Shimada p. 275
1999	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Cappetta and Case p. 22
1999	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Underwood and Mitchell fig. 6J
2005	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Siverson and Lindgren p. 303 fig. 2
2006	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Shimada et al. p. 17 figs. 10.9-10.12
2008	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Cook et al. p. 1190 fig. 5A
2008	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Shimada and Martin p. 93 figs. 6D-F
2010	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Shimada and Nagrodski p. 235 fig. 1
2011	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Bourdon et al. p. 17 fig. 11H,I
2012	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Nagrodski et al. p. 79 fig. 3F
2013	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Cook et al. p. 568 figs. 10A-H
2016	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Bice and Shimada p. 176 fig. 3F
2016	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Johnson-Ransom et al. p. 208 fig. 1B,C
2018	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Guinot and Carrillo-Briceño p. 12 fig. 6A,B
2020	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Amalfitano et al. p. 265 figs. 3D-I
2024	Cretoxyrhina mantelli Jambura et al. p. 17 figs. 9C-G

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Chondrichthyes

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Elasmobranchii	Bonaparte 1838
infraclass	Euselachii	()
—	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Galeomorphii	Compagno 1973
order	Lamniformes	Berg 1958
family	Cretoxyrhinidae	Glückman 1958
genus	Cretoxyrhina	Glikman 1958
species	mantelli	()

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.

†Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835

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Invalid names: Oxyrhina extenta Leidy 1873 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Created:

2009-07-21 07:05:21

Modified:

2009-07-21 09:05:21

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Campanian or 99.60000 to 72.10000 Ma

Collections (61 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Germany (Westphalia)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (210063)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Australia (Western Australia)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (215794)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	United Kingdom (England)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213356)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Colorado)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (132505)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Italy (Vicenza)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (214715)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Venezuela	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213628)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213414 213415 213416 213417 213418 213419)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Sweden	Isurus mantelli (70427)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Australia (Western Australia)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (215561)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Italy	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (214600)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (94538 106008)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Colorado)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (35429 213403)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Canada (Alberta)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213314)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Nebraska)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213401)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (102879)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	USA (Texas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213300 213305)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	USA (South Dakota)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (181902)
Turonian - Coniacian	93.9 - 86.3	USA (Texas)	Oxyrhina extenta (107425)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213384 213385 213386 213404)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Canada (Alberta)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (136242 213294)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	USA (Iowa)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213400)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	USA (Nebraska)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213388 213402)
Middle Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213387 213390)
Middle Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	USA (Montana)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (215792)
Coniacian	89.8 - 86.3	France (Charente)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (161749)
Coniacian	89.8 - 86.3	Canada (Saskatchewan)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (23369)
Coniacian - Santonian	89.8 - 83.6	USA (Colorado)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (227704)
Early/Lower Coniacian	89.3 - 85.8	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213547 213548 213551 213555)
Late/Upper Coniacian	89.3 - 85.8	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (118156)
Santonian	86.3 - 83.6	USA (Alabama)	Isurus mantelli (81928)
Santonian	86.3 - 83.6	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (94652)
Santonian	86.3 - 83.6	Russian Federation (Orenburg)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (232890)
Early/Lower Santonian - Middle Santonian	85.8 - 83.5	USA (New Mexico)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (52037)
Late/Upper Santonian	85.8 - 83.5	France (Aude)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (233200)
Late/Upper Santonian	85.8 - 83.5	Jordan	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (62538)
Middle Santonian	85.8 - 83.5	USA (Kansas)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (49045)
Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian	85.8 - 70.6	USA (Alabama)	Isurus mantelli (82043)
Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian	85.8 - 66.0	Jordan (Mafraq)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (230055)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.1	Congo-Brazzaville	Oxyrhina mantelli (191894)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Sweden (Skane)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (106411)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Sweden (Skåne)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (74335)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Sweden	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (102883 214340)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	USA (New Jersey)	Cretoxyrhina mantelli (213749)