Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae

Full reference: D. J. Cicimurri and J. A. Ebersole. 2021. New Paleogene elasmobranch (Chondrichthyes) records from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States, including a new species of Carcharhinus de Blainville, 1816. Cainozoic Research 21(2):147-164

Belongs to Carcharhinus according to D. J. Cicimurri and J. A. Ebersole 2021

Sister taxa: Carcharhinus (Prionodon), Carcharhinus acanthodon, Carcharhinus ackermannii, Carcharhinus acronotus, Carcharhinus albimarginatus, Carcharhinus altimus, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, Carcharhinus amboinensis, Carcharhinus antiquus, Carcharhinus balochensis, Carcharhinus bhubanicus, Carcharhinus brachyurus, Carcharhinus brevipinna, Carcharhinus caquetius, Carcharhinus cionei, Carcharhinus collatus, Carcharhinus dicelmai, Carcharhinus egertoni, Carcharhinus elongatus, Carcharhinus falciformis, Carcharhinus galapagensis, Carcharhinus gibbesii, Carcharhinus gilmorei, Carcharhinus kasserinensis, Carcharhinus lamia, Carcharhinus leucas, Carcharhinus limbatus, Carcharhinus longimanus, Carcharhinus macloti, Carcharhinus magdalenae, Carcharhinus malembeensis, Carcharhinus mancinae, Carcharhinus marcaisi, Carcharhinus melanopterus, Carcharhinus nigeriensis, Carcharhinus obscurus, Carcharhinus perezi, Carcharhinus perseus, Carcharhinus plumbeus, Carcharhinus porosus, Carcharhinus priscus, Carcharhinus sealei, Carcharhinus signatus, Carcharhinus sorrah, Carcharhinus tjutjot

Type specimen: LSUMG V-22439, a tooth (upper left lateral tooth). Its type locality is B.F. Smith Quarry, which is in a Bartonian marine ironstone in the Cook Mountain Formation of Louisiana.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at B.F. Smith Quarry

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