Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Alternative spelling: Squalus (Carcharias)
Synonym: Eugomphodus Gill 1862
Parent taxon: Carchariidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2024
See also Agassiz 1835, Alessandri 1896, Antunes and Balbino 2003, Arambourg 1927, Biddle 1993, Bogan and Agnolin 2010, Bohm 1926, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Cantalice et al. 2019, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cappetta and Corral 1999, Cappetta et al. 2019, Cappetta and Nolf 2005, Case 1981, Case 1991, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Compagno 2005, Corral et al. 2016, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, David 1943, Donovan and Gunter 2001, Dutheil et al. 2006, Eastman 1904, Eastman 1908, Gibbes 1847, Guinot et al. 2023, Guinot et al. 2013, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kriwet 1999, Landau et al. 2025, Landini et al. 2019, Long 1992, Long and Stilwell 2000, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Marsili et al. 2007, Miller 1967, Mors et al. 2000, Nagao 1928, Otero et al. 2013, Popov et al. 2025, Purdy et al. 2001, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Shimada 1997, Shimada and Martin 2008, Shimada et al. 2006, Siverson 1992, Siverson 1996, Siverson 1997, Szabo et al. 2017, Tabuce et al. 2005, Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003, Villafaña et al. 2020, Woodward 1889, Yabe and Hirayama 1998 and Zalmout and Mustafa 2001
Sister taxa: Oxytes, Triglochis
Subtaxa: Carcharias (Aprion) Carcharias (Odontaspis) Carcharias aasenensis Carcharias acutissimus Carcharias adneti Carcharias clavata Carcharias clavatus Carcharias cuspidatus Carcharias divergens Carcharias dominguei Carcharias dubius Carcharias duplex Carcharias ensiculatus Carcharias gibbesii Carcharias gracilis Carcharias gustrowensis Carcharias hardingi Carcharias holmdelensis Carcharias hopei Carcharias khderii Carcharias latus Carcharias lomitae Carcharias ornatus Carcharias polygyrus Carcharias samhammeri Carcharias sanctaecrucis Carcharias steineri Carcharias sternbergensis Carcharias taurus Carcharias tenuis Carcharias tenuis Carcharias tingitana Carcharias victoriae Carcharias vincenti Carcharias virgatulus Carcharias vorax
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (3 collections), France (1), Italy (1), South Africa (1), Taiwan (2), United States (10: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (6), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (12), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (2), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), South Africa (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Angola (2), Argentina (3), Australia (9), Austria (8), Belgium (10), Chile (4), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Czechia (2), Egypt (1), France (19), Germany (13), Grenada (1), Hungary (2), India (3), Italy (2), Japan (9), Malta (5), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (3), Peru (5), Poland (2), Portugal (12), Slovakia (4), Spain (7), United States (17: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)
• Neogene of North Pacific (1), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (2)
• Oligocene of Angola (3), Australia (6), Belgium (12), Czechia (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (2), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1), Romania (2), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Angola (5), Antarctica (2), Argentina (2), Australia (5), Barbados (1), Belgium (3), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (1), Egypt (15), France (4), Germany (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (19: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of France (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (2), Belgium (5), Bulgaria (2), Denmark (3), France (7), Morocco (4), New Zealand (6), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (2), Togo (1), United States (11: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (3), Argentina (2), Australia (3), Canada (15: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (5), France (12), Germany (1), Israel (5), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (2), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (5), Sweden (11), Syria (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (87: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 592 collections including 781 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.