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, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Carcharocles, Cretolamna, Kenolamna, Megalolamna, Megaselachus, Otodus, Palaeocarcharodon
Subtaxa: Parotodus benedeni Parotodus benedenii
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: South Carolina collection)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Spain (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (2), Mexico (1)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (6), Malta (1), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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