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Odontaspis macrota

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae

Taxonomy
Otodus macrotus was named by Agassiz (1838) [Eocene; Pacific North America, Atlantic North America, Belgium, Paris Basin, Ukraine, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Chile, Seymour Island].

It was recombined as Odontaspis macrota by Gibbes (1847), Bohm (1926), Leriche (1942), White (1956), Edwards (1976), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Wolberg (1985), Verma (2024); it was recombined as Lamna macrota by Woodward (1889); it was recombined as Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) macrota by Dartevelle and Casier (1943), Casier (1946), Bauzá and Gómez Pallerola (1988); it was recombined as Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) macrotus by Casier (1958), Casier (1966); it was recombined as Carcharias macrotus by Pledge (1967); it was recombined as Carcharias macrota by Long (1992), Long and Stilwell (2000); it was recombined as Striatolamia macrota by Cappetta and Nolf (1981), Bor (1985), Nolf (1988), Dutheil and Merle (1992), Li (1997), Zhelezko and Kozlov (1999), Cuny and Risnes (2005), Adnet (2006), Otero et al. (2012), Malyshkina et al. (2013), Otero et al. (2013), Carlsen and Cuny (2014), Maisch et al. (2014), Pledge et al. (2015), Case et al. (2015), Kriwet et al. (2016), Cappetta and Case (2016), Ebersole et al. (2019), Cantalice et al. (2019), Rana et al. (2021), Trif et al. (2022), Goedert et al. (2024), Popov et al. (2025), De Schutter and Steurbaut (2025).

Subspecies
O. semistriata
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. abbatei, O. acutisima, O. borodini, O. cheethami, O. contoridens, O. hynei, O. irigonalis, O. littoralis, O. sahammeri, O. studeri, O. substriatus, O. accutissima, O. acutissuma
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2008-09-03; modified by M. Clapham on 2021-08-06

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1838Lamna elegans Agassiz figs. Pl 35, figs 1-7
1838Otodus macrotus Agassiz figs. Pl 32, figs 29-31
1838Lamna elegans Agassiz p. 289 figs. Pl 35, figs 1-7
1843Odontaspis elegans Agassiz figs. Pl P, fig 5; pl 37a, figs 58,59
1843Otodus macrotus Agassiz p. 273
1843Lamna elegans Agassiz p. 289 figs. Plate XL, b, Fig. 24
1847Lamna elegans Gibbes p. 196
1847Odontaspis macrota Gibbes p. 200
1873Lamna elegans Leidy p. 304
1888Lamna huttoni Davis p. 15 figs. Plate III, Figs. 1 a, b, c
1889Odontaspis elegans Woodward p. 360
1889Lamna macrota Woodward p. 401
1895Odontaspis elegans Clark p. 4
1895Odontaspis macrota rossica Jaekel
1896Odontaspis elegans Alessandri p. 720
1901Odontaspis elegans Eastman p. 104 figs. Plate XIV, Figs. 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 3c
1902Lamna elegans Hay p. 303
1902Otodus macrotus Hay p. 305
1904Odontaspis elegans Eastman p. 79
1910Odontaspis elegans Stromer p. 495
1918Odontaspis elegans Chapman p. 11
1924Odontaspis elegans Chapman and Cudmore p. 123
1926Odontaspis macrota Bohm p. 76
1942Odontaspis macrota Leriche p. 29
1943Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) macrota Dartevelle and Casier p. 118 figs. Pl 4, figs 27-29
1946Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) macrota Casier p. 66
1946Carcharias elegans Rapp p. 510
1956Odontaspis macrota White p. 147
1958Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) macrotus Casier p. 18
1966Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) macrotus Casier p. 69
1967Carcharias macrotus Pledge p. 145 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-8
1976Odontaspis macrota Edwards p. 67 figs. 1d-h
1981Striatolamia macrota Cappetta and Nolf p. 90 figs. Pl 1, figs 4-7
1981Odontaspis macrota Thurmond and Jones p. 48
1985Striatolamia macrota Bor p. 92 figs. Pl 2, figs 9-11
1985Odontaspis macrota Wolberg p. 12 figs. 4.3, 4.4, 4.9-4.11
1988Odontaspis (Synodontaspis) macrota Bauzá and Gómez Pallerola p. 123 figs. 2.14-2.21
1988Striatolamia macrota Nolf p. 110 figs. Pl 27, figs 1-17
1992Striatolamia macrota Dutheil and Merle p. 17 fig. 5
1992Carcharias macrota Long p. 25 fig. 11A,B,D,E
1997Striatolamia macrota Li p. 113 figs. 4D-F
1999Striatolamia elegans Zhelezko and Kozlov p. 130 figs. Pl 11, fig 5; pl 56, figs 1-11
1999Striatolamia macrota Zhelezko and Kozlov p. 131 figs. Pl 9, figs 1-3; pl 10; pl 11, figs 1-4; pl 57; pl 58, figs 1-5,7-10; pl 59; pl 60, figs 7,9
2000Carcharias macrota Long and Stilwell p. 349
2005Striatolamia macrota Cuny and Risnes p. 14 fig. 5a
2006Striatolamia macrota Adnet p. 62 figs. Pl 19, fig 9; pl 20, figs 1-3
2012Striatolamia macrota Otero et al. p. 185 figs. 3A-C
2013Striatolamia macrota Malyshkina et al. p. 99 figs. Pl 13, fig 2
2013Striatolamia macrota Otero et al. p. 19 figs. 4.19-4.26
2014Striatolamia macrota Carlsen and Cuny p. 44 figs. 3G-L
2014Striatolamia macrota Maisch et al. p. 186
2015Striatolamia macrota Case et al. p. 1127
2015Striatolamia macrota Pledge et al. p. 72
2016Striatolamia macrota Cappetta and Case p. 54 figs. Pl 2, figs 7,8; pl 3, figs 1-7
2016Striatolamia macrota Kriwet et al. p. 8 figs. 5D-U
2019Striatolamia macrota Cantalice et al. p. 431
2019Striatolamia macrota Ebersole et al. p. 32
2021Striatolamia macrota Rana et al. p. 4
2022Striatolamia macrota Trif et al. p. 1795
2024Striatolamia macrota Goedert et al. p. 451
2024Odontaspis macrota Verma p. 1991
2025Striatolamia macrota De Schutter and Steurbaut p. 121 figs. Pl 1.2
2025Striatolamia macrota Popov et al. p. 132 figs. 5A1-B2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
infraclassElasmobranchii(Bonaparte 1838)
—Euselachii()
—NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderGaleomorphiiCompagno 1973
orderLamniformesBerg 1958
familyOdontaspididaeMüller and Henle 1839
genusOdontaspis
speciesmacrota()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Odontaspis macrota Agassiz 1838
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Diagnosis
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