Cosmopolitodus Glikman 1964 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae

Full reference: L. S. Glikman. 1964. Podklass Elasmobranchii. Akulovye. Osnovy Paleontologii. Tom 11: Beschelyustnye, Ryby 196-237

Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to G. Marramà€ et al. 2026

See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Glikman 1964, Herman 1977, Landau et al. 2025, Landini et al. 2019, Malyshkina et al. 2024, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015 and Szabo et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Carcharoides, Carcharomodus, Exoles, Isurolamna, Isurus, Lamna, Lethenia, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Rhizoquadrangulus, Selanonius, Uyenoa

Subtaxa: Cosmopolitodus planus Cosmopolitodus plicatilis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection), Italy (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (1: Oregon)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Panama (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Hungary (1), Japan (13), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Peru (5), the Russian Federation (2), South Korea (2), United States (6: California)

• Oligocene of Australia (1)

Total: 41 collections each including a single occurrence

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