Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (11me livraison) 73-140
Parent taxon: Otodontidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013
See also Cantalice et al. 2025, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Davis 1888, Eastman 1904, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Gibbes 1847, Goedert et al. 2025, Goedert et al. 2024, Hay 1902, Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Landau et al. 2025, Leidy 1873, Maisch et al. 2014, Maisch IV et al. 2025, Pollerspöck et al. 2025, Popov et al. 2025, Rapp 1946, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Szabo et al. 2017 and Trif et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Cretalamna, Kenolamna, Megalolamna, Palaeocarcharodon, Parotodus, Trigonotodus
Subtaxa: Otodus (Carcharocles) Otodus (Megaselachus) Otodus (Otodus) Otodus aksuaticus Otodus auriculatus Otodus chubutensis Otodus isoelicus Otodus levis Otodus megalodon Otodus minor Otodus naidini Otodus obliquus Otodus poseidoni Otodus recticonus Otodus schoutedeni Otodus sokolovi Otodus spathula Otodus subplicatus Otodus tricuspis Otodus trigonatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Blancan of Mexico (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Cape Verde (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Argentina (1), Australia (3), Ecuador (2), Italy (8), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (3), Portugal (1), South Africa (2), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (4), United States (9: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (2), Cuba (1), Japan (4), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Portugal (1), United States (5: California, Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Barbados (1), Fiji (1), Indian Ocean (1), Nigeria (1), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (3), United States (1: California), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Angola (3), Argentina (3), Australia (9), Austria (9), Belgium (4), Brazil (10), Brunei Darussalam (2), Cape Verde (1), Chile (1), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), Czechia (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (2), France (11), Germany (3), Greece (1), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), India (6), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (27), Madagascar (2), Malta (5), Mexico (7), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (5), North Atlantic (7), Oman (1), Panama (27), Peru (21), Poland (2), Portugal (11), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (2), South Africa (2), South Atlantic (1), South Korea (1), Spain (6), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Türkiye (1), United States (55: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (19)
• Oligocene of Australia (8), Belgium (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (9), Kazakhstan (1), New Zealand (3), Ukraine (1), United States (14: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene of Angola (9), Antarctica (7), Argentina (4), Australia (1), Belgium (5), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (22), France (5), Germany (2), Iran (1), Japan (2), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (6), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (28: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Uzbekistan (2), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Angola (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Angola (4), Antarctica (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (5), Kazakhstan (2), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), Togo (1), United States (9: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (5), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of France (2), New Zealand (1), United States (1: North Dakota)
Total: 589 collections including 625 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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