Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Alternative spelling: Carcharocles
Parent taxon: Otodus according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Antunes and Balbino 2003, Boessenecker 2016, Boessenecker et al. 2019, Cantalice et al. 2025, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Goedert et al. 2024, Gottfried et al. 1996, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Landini et al. 2019, Long 1992, Otero et al. 2013, Pimiento et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002, Szabo et al. 2017 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Otodus (Megaselachus), Otodus (Otodus), Otodus aksuaticus, Otodus auriculatus, Otodus chubutensis, Otodus isoelicus, Otodus levis, Otodus megalodon, Otodus minor, Otodus naidini, Otodus obliquus, Otodus poseidoni, Otodus recticonus, Otodus schoutedeni, Otodus sokolovi, Otodus spathula, Otodus subplicatus, Otodus tricuspis, Otodus trigonatus
Subtaxa: Carcharocles disauris Carcharocles rectus Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: California collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Brazil (5), Colombia (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Slovakia (1), United States (3: Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Oligocene of Australia (6), Belgium (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (8), Kazakhstan (1), New Zealand (2), Ukraine (1), United States (10: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Belgium (1), Egypt (21), France (5), Germany (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), United States (9: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (1)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (2)
Total: 106 collections including 107 occurrences