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, 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 (Otodus), Otodus apiculatus, Otodus auriculatus, Otodus chubutensis, Otodus isoelicus, Otodus lanceolatus, Otodus levis, Otodus megalodon, Otodus obliquus, Otodus recticonus, Otodus sokolovi, Otodus subplicatus, Otodus tricuspis, Otodus trigonatus
Subtaxa: Carcharocles rectus Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (1: California collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Colombia (1), Hungary (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), United States (3: Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Oligocene of Australia (6), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (2), United States (9: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Egypt (14), Germany (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), United States (10: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 66 collections including 68 occurrences