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Carcharocles rectus
Taxonomy
Carcharodon rectus was named by Agassiz (1856).
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon megalodon by Eastman (1904); it was recombined as Carcharocles rectus by Jordan and Hanibal (1923), Soper and Grant and IV (1932); it was synonymized subjectively with Otodus megalodon by Boessenecker et al. (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon megalodon by Eastman (1904); it was recombined as Carcharocles rectus by Jordan and Hanibal (1923), Soper and Grant and IV (1932); it was synonymized subjectively with Otodus megalodon by Boessenecker et al. (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1856 | Carcharodon rectus Agassiz p. 314 figs. Plate 1, Figs. 29-31 |
| 1902 | Carcharodon rectus Hay p. 308 |
| 1907 | Carcharodon rectus Jordan p. 112 |
| 1919 | Carcharodon rectus Jordan and Gilbert p. 22 |
| 1923 | Carcharocles rectus Jordan and Hanibal p. 57 figs. Plate I, a. C. f. j. d. e. i. j. |
| 1932 | Carcharocles rectus Soper and Grant, IV p. 1057 |
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†Carcharocles rectus Agassiz 1856
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available