Carcharoides Ameghino 1901 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. L' age des Formations sedimentaires de Patagonie. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 52:189-197

Parent taxon: Lamnidae according to C. Werner 1989

See also Ameghino 1901, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Sepkoski 2002 and Szabo et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Alopecias, Carcharodon, Cosmopolitodus, Exoles, Isurolamna, Isurus, Lamna, Macrorhizodus, Oxyprinichthys, Plectrostoma, Selanonius, Uyenoa

Subtaxa: Carcharoides catticus Carcharoides tenuidens Carcharoides totuserratus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1 collection)

• Miocene of Australia (2), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Hungary (2), Malta (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: Virginia)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (4), Hungary (1)

• Eocene of Argentina (2)

Total: 18 collections including 21 occurrences

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