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Otodus auriculatus
Taxonomy
Squalus auriculatus was named by Blainville (1818).
It was recombined as Carcharias auriculatus by Agassiz (1835) and Agassiz Duplicate (1839); it was recombined as Carcharodon auriculatus by Agassiz (1843), Woodward (1889), Hay (1902), Chapman and Pritchard (1904), Chapman (1918), Chapman and Cudmore (1924), Leriche (1926), Rapp (1946), Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena (1996), Maisch et al. (2014), Cantalice et al. (2019); it was recombined as Procarcharodon auriculatus by Case (1981); it was recombined as Carcharocles auriculatus by Long (1992), Otero et al. (2013); it was recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) auriculatus by Cappetta and Case (2016); it was recombined as Otodus auriculatus by Trif et al. (2016), Popov et al. (2025), Goedert et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Carcharias auriculatus by Agassiz (1835) and Agassiz Duplicate (1839); it was recombined as Carcharodon auriculatus by Agassiz (1843), Woodward (1889), Hay (1902), Chapman and Pritchard (1904), Chapman (1918), Chapman and Cudmore (1924), Leriche (1926), Rapp (1946), Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena (1996), Maisch et al. (2014), Cantalice et al. (2019); it was recombined as Procarcharodon auriculatus by Case (1981); it was recombined as Carcharocles auriculatus by Long (1992), Otero et al. (2013); it was recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) auriculatus by Cappetta and Case (2016); it was recombined as Otodus auriculatus by Trif et al. (2016), Popov et al. (2025), Goedert et al. (2025).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1818 | Squalus auriculatus Blainville |
| 1835 | Carcharias auriculatus Agassiz figs. Pl 28, figs 17-19 |
| 1839 | Carcharias auriculatus Agassiz Duplicate figs. Pl 28, figs 17-19 |
| 1843 | Carcharodon auriculatus Agassiz p. 254 |
| 1888 | Carcharodon robustus Davis p. 13 figs. Plate I, Fig. 7 |
| 1889 | Carcharodon auriculatus Woodward p. 411 |
| 1894 | Carcharodon robustus Hector p. 116 |
| 1902 | Carcharodon auriculatus Hay p. 307 |
| 1904 | Carcharodon auriculatus Chapman and Pritchard p. 283 |
| 1904 | Carcharodon robustus Chapman and Pritchard p. 2845 |
| 1918 | Carcharodon auriculatus Chapman p. 18 |
| 1924 | Carcharodon auriculatus Chapman and Cudmore p. 134 |
| 1926 | Carcharodon auriculatus Leriche p. 463 |
| 1946 | Carcharodon auriculatus Rapp p. 510 |
| 1981 | Procarcharodon auriculatus Case p. 56 |
| 1992 | Carcharocles auriculatus Long p. 28 |
| 1996 | Carcharodon auriculatus Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena p. 28 |
| 2013 | Carcharocles auriculatus Otero et al. p. 19 figs. 4.3-4.8 |
| 2014 | Carcharodon auriculatus Maisch et al. p. 188 |
| 2016 | Otodus (Carcharocles) auriculatus Cappetta and Case p. 55 figs. Pl 6, figs 8-13 |
| 2016 | Otodus auriculatus Trif et al. p. 509 |
| 2019 | Carcharodon auriculatus Cantalice et al. p. 431 |
| 2025 | Otodus auriculatus Goedert et al. |
| 2025 | Otodus auriculatus Popov et al. p. 136 figs. 7A1-B2 |
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†Otodus auriculatus Blainville 1818
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Invalid names: Carcharodon robustus Davis 1888 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available