Brachycarcharias Cappetta and Nolf 2005 (sand tiger shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta and D. Nolf. 2005. Révision de quelques Odontaspididae (Neoselachii: Lamniformes) du Paléocène et de l'Eocène du Bassin de la mer du Nord. Bulletin de l'institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 75:237-266

Parent taxon: Odontaspididae according to S. K. Verma 2024

See also Cappetta and Nolf 2005, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Mannering and Hiller 2008, Marramà et al. 2018, Marramà et al. 2019 and Popov et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Araloselachus, Cenocarcharias, Eostriatolamia, Glueckmanotodus, Hispidaspis, Hypotodus, Jaekelotodus, Johnlonginae, Lamninae, Mennerotodus, Microcarcharias, Odontaspinae, Odontaspis, Orpodon, Palaeohypotodus, Pseudodontaspis, Pueblocarcharias, Scyllium gracilis, Scyllium planidens, Sylvestrilamia, Synodontaspis, Tethylamna

Subtaxa: Brachycarcharias atlasi Brachycarcharias koerti Brachycarcharias lerichei Brachycarcharias mississippiensis Brachycarcharias twiggsensis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Egypt (1), Germany (1), India (2), Italy (3), Nigeria (4), the Russian Federation (4), Senegal (2), the United Kingdom (13), United States (15: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Paleocene of Algeria (1), New Zealand (2), Togo (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

Total: 51 collections including 57 occurrences

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