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Carcharodon tembloris

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae

Taxonomy
Carcharodon tembloris was named by Jordan (1926). Its type specimen is CAS 1843, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sharktooth Hill, which is in a Langhian shoreface siltstone in the Temblor Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. augustidens, C. praemegalodon
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2014-07-01

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1926Carcharodon tembloris Jordan p. 258 figs. Plate 26, figs, 1, 3

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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
familyLamnidaeMüller and Henle 1838
genusCarcharodonSmith 1838
speciestembloris

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.

†Carcharodon tembloris Jordan 1926
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Diagnosis
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