Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Alternative combinations: Isurus mantelli, Isurus mantellii, Lamna mantellii, Oxyrhina mantelli, Oxyrhina mantellii
Synonym: Oxyrhina extenta Leidy 1873
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1835. Feuilleton Additionnel aux Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles 21-64
Belongs to Cretoxyrhina according to J. K. Juranek and K. Shimada 2025
See also Agassiz 1835, Agassiz 1838, Agassiz 1843, Amalfitano et al. 2019, Amalfitano et al. 2020, Antunes and Cappetta 2002, Applegate 1970, Barrois 1874, Bauzá Rullán 1966, Bice and Shimada 2016, Bourdon and Everhart 2011, Bourdon et al. 2011, Cappetta and Case 1975, Cappetta and Case 1999, Case et al. 1990, Cicimurri 2001, Cicimurri 2001, Cicimurri 2004, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Cook et al. 2017, Cook et al. 2008, Cook et al. 2013, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Gibbes 1847, Glikman 1958, Guinot and Carrillo-Briceño 2018, Hamm and Cicimurri 2011, Hay 1902, Herman 1977, Jambura et al. 2024, Johnson-Ransom et al. 2016, Leidy 1873, Lucas et al. 2000, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Mustafa 2000, Nagrodski et al. 2012, Priem 1896, Retzler et al. 2013, Shimada 1996, Shimada 1997, Shimada and Martin 2008, Shimada and Nagrodski 2010, Shimada et al. 2006, Siverson 1992, Siverson 1996, Siverson and Lindgren 2005, Stewart and Martin 1993, Takakuwa et al. 2018, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood and Mitchell 1999, Weiler 1964, Williamson et al. 1993, Woodward 1889, Zalmout and Mustafa 2001 and Zaręczny 1878
Sister taxa: Cretoxyrhina denticulata, Cretoxyrhina vraconensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (5 collections), Australia (2), Belgium (2), Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), France (13), Germany (3), Israel (7), Italy (11), Japan (1), Jordan (3), Mexico (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (82: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas), Venezuela (1)
Total: 151 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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