Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta, K. Morrison, and S. Adnet. 2019. A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages. Historical Biology 33:1121-1182
Belongs to Carcharias according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Carcharias (Odontaspis), Carcharias aasenensis, Carcharias acutissima, Carcharias acutissimus, Carcharias acutus, Carcharias adneti, Carcharias clavata, Carcharias clavatus, Carcharias collata, Carcharias duplex, Carcharias eocaenus, Carcharias gibbesii, Carcharias gracilis, Carcharias gustrowensis, Carcharias hardingi, Carcharias holmdelensis, Carcharias hopei, Carcharias latus, Carcharias lomitae, Carcharias melanopterus, Carcharias ornatus, Carcharias polygyrus, Carcharias reticulata, Carcharias samhammeri, Carcharias sanctaecrucis, Carcharias taurus, Carcharias tenuis, Carcharias tenuis, Carcharias victoriae, Carcharias virgatulus
Type specimen: RBCM P1268, a tooth. Its type locality is SHU-COL, Collishaw site, Hornby Island, which is in a Campanian submarine fan shale in the Northumberland Formation of Canada.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.