Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42
Parent taxon: Otodontidae according to H. Cappetta 1980
See also Fukata et al. 2014, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Landini et al. 2019, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Cretalamna, Kenolamna, Megalolamna, Otodus, Palaeocarcharodon, Trigonotodus
Subtaxa: Parotodus benedeni Parotodus benedenii Parotodus mangyshlakensis Parotodus pavlovi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Mexico (1), North Atlantic (2), Portugal (1), Spain (3), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Chile (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (6), Malta (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (3), Japan (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), Egypt (4), Ukraine (1)
Total: 48 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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