Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Full reference: D. S. Jordan. 1926. New sharks from the Temblor Group in Kern County, California collected by Charles Morrice. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 15(8):257-261
Belongs to Carcharodon according to D. S. Jordan 1926
Sister taxa: Carcharodon (Procarcharodon), Carcharodon acutidens, Carcharodon arnoldi, Carcharodon branneri, Carcharodon carcharias, Carcharodon contortidens, Carcharodon debrayi, Carcharodon hastalis, 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 toliapicus
Type specimen: CAS 1843, a tooth. Its type locality is Sharktooth Hill, which is in a Langhian shoreface siltstone in the Temblor Formation of California.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Sharktooth Hill
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