Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Alternative combinations: Cosmopolitodus hastalis, Isurus hastalis, Oxyrhina hastalis
Synonyms: Isurus smithii Jordan 1907, Isurus tumulus Agassiz 1856, Oxyrhina acuminata Davis 1888, Oxyrhina lata Davis 1888, Oxyrhina trigonodon Agassiz 1843, Oxyrhina tumula Agassiz 1856
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (11me livraison) 73-140
Belongs to Carcharodon according to S. J. Godfrey et al. 2025
See also Agassiz 1838, Agassiz 1843, Agassiz 1843, Antunes and Balbino 2003, Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena 1996, Arambourg 1927, Ávila et al. 2012, Baldanza et al. 2025, Bengevoord 1973, Betancort et al. 2016, Boessenecker et al. 2019, Brisswalter 2009, Casier 1958, Casier 1966, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Clark 1895, Cook et al. 2010, Davis 1888, Ehret et al. 2012, Everaert et al. 2019, Gibbes 1847, Gille et al. 2010, Hay 1902, Heinrich 1969, Herman 1974, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1925, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Karasawa 1989, Kent 2018, Kim et al. 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kuga 1985, Landau et al. 2025, Landini et al. 2017, Landini et al. 2019, Leriche 1926, Leriche 1942, Maisch IV et al. 2018, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Malyshkina et al. 2023, Marramà et al. 2026, Marsili et al. 2007, Nolf 1988, Pledge 1967, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Suarez et al. 2006, Takakuwa 2014, Takakuwa and Shimizu 2015, Tanaka 2001, Vialle et al. 2011, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Villafaña et al. 2020, Woodward 1889 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Carcharodon (Procarcharodon), Carcharodon acutidens, Carcharodon arnoldi, Carcharodon branneri, Carcharodon carcharias, Carcharodon contortidens, Carcharodon debrayi, Carcharodon heterodon, Carcharodon hubbelli, Carcharodon humilis, Carcharodon lanceolatus, Carcharodon lanciformis, Carcharodon leptodon, Carcharodon leviathan, Carcharodon megalotis, Carcharodon morricei, Carcharodon mortoni, Carcharodon nodai, Carcharodon productus, Carcharodon purplei, Carcharodon semiserratus, Carcharodon stromeri, Carcharodon subauriculatus, Carcharodon subserratus, Carcharodon tembloris, Carcharodon toliapicus
Subtaxa: Isurus hastalis trigonodon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections), Japan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (5: Alabama, California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Argentina (3), Australia (3), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Libya (1), the Netherlands (2), North Atlantic (2), Portugal (5), Spain (6), United States (7: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Australia (12), Austria (2), Belgium (6), Chile (6), Cuba (1), Czechia (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (15), Germany (5), Greece (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (2), Japan (29), Malta (5), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (1), Peru (17), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Slovakia (2), South Korea (3), Spain (4), United States (31: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), New Zealand (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Barbados (2), Namibia (1)
• Paleocene of United States (2: New Jersey, Virginia)
Total: 232 collections including 235 occurrences
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