Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Alternative combinations: Cretolamna appendiculata, Lamna appendiculata, Lamna appendiculatus, Otodus appendiculatis, Otodus appendiculatus
Synonym: Lamna manitobensis Whiteaves 1889
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1835. Feuilleton Additionnel aux Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles 21-64
Belongs to Cretalamna according to A. M. Salvino et al. 2025
See also Adnet 2006, Adolfssen and Ward 2015, Agassiz 1835, Agassiz 1838, Agassiz 1843, Amalfitano et al. 2020, Antunes and Cappetta 2002, Applegate 1970, Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena 1996, Bardack 1968, Barrois 1874, Becker et al. 2010, Bice and Shimada 2016, Bogan and Agnolin 2010, Cappetta and Case 1975, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cappetta and Corral 1999, Cappetta and Odin 2001, Carlsen and Cuny 2014, Case 1979, Case 1989, Case 1991, Case 2001, Case et al. 2001, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Case et al. 2001, Chapman 1918, Cicimurri 2001, Cicimurri 2004, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Cook et al. 2013, Corral et al. 2016, Dalinkevičius 1935, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Diedrich 2014, Evetts 1979, Gibbes 1847, Gottfried et al. 2001, Hamm and Cicimurri 2011, Hay 1902, Herman 1977, Itoigawa 1977, Juranek and Shimada 2025, Ladwig 2006, Ladwig 2006, Maisch et al. 2021, Manning and Dockery 1992, Mikuž 2003, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Mustafa 2000, Priem 1896, Rapp 1946, Retzler et al. 2013, Shimada 1996, Shimada 2006, Shimada 2007, Shimada and Martin 2008, Shimada et al. 2006, Shimada et al. 2010, Siverson 1992, Siverson 1996, Siversson et al. 2015, Spielmann et al. 2009, Stewart and Martin 1993, Takakuwa et al. 2018, Thies 1979, Thies and Müller 1993, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Underwood et al. 2011, Uyeno et al. 1981, Uyeno and Suzuki 1995, Vasquez and Pimiento 2014, Weiler 1964, Welton and Alderson 1981, Williamson et al. 1993, Wolberg 1985, Wolberg 1985, Woodward 1889, Zalmout and Mustafa 2001 and Zaręczny 1878
Sister taxa: Cretalamna biauriculata, Cretalamna bryanti, Cretalamna catoxodon, Cretalamna deschutteri, Cretalamna ewelli, Cretalamna feldmanni, Cretalamna gertericorum, Cretalamna hattini, Cretalamna sarcoportheta, Cretolamna borealis, Cretolamna lata, Cretolamna marroti, Cretolamna pachyrhiza
Subtaxa: Cretolamna appendiculata appendiculata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of France (1 collection), United States (2: Maryland, New Jersey)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Panama (2), United States (1: Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Angola (3)
• Paleocene of Angola (12), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Denmark (3), Morocco (1), Sweden (1), United States (5: California, New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (11), Argentina (1), Belgium (6), Brazil (1), Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba), the Congo-Brazzaville (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (5), Czechia (1), Egypt (4), France (24), Germany (6), India (1), Israel (9), Italy (1), Japan (12), Jordan (8), Kazakhstan (2), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (5), Sweden (4), Switzerland (1), Syria (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (105: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 264 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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