Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Alternative combination: Carcharias macrota
Synonyms: Carcharias elegans Agassiz 1838, Lamna elegans Agassiz 1838, Lamna huttoni Davis 1888, Odontaspis elegans Agassiz 1838
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (11me livraison) 73-140
Belongs to Striatolamia according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019
See also Agassiz 1838, Agassiz 1843, Agassiz 1843, Alessandri 1896, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Clark 1895, Davis 1888, Eastman 1904, Gibbes 1847, Hay 1902, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1942, Pledge et al. 2015, Rapp 1946, Stromer 1910 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxon: Striatolamia striata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection), the Czech Republic (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (4: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Chile (3), Germany (2), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (26: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3)
• Paleocene of Togo (1), United States (5: Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1), United States (3: Delaware, Maryland)
Total: 86 collections including 87 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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