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Otodus (Megaselachus)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae

Taxonomy
Megaselachus was named by Glyckman (1964).

It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon by Gottfried et al. (1996); it was reranked as Otodus (Megaselachus) by Kocsis et al. (2019).

It was assigned to Otodontidae by Herman (1977), Cahuzac et al. (2007); and to Otodus by Kocsis et al. (2019).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Megaselachus Glyckman
1977Megaselachus Herman p. 166
2007Megaselachus Cahuzac et al. p. 18
2019Otodus (Megaselachus) Kocsis et al. p. 793

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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
familyOtodontidaeGlickman 1964
genusOtodus
subgenusMegaselachus(Glyckman 1964)

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.

Subg. †Otodus (Megaselachus) Glyckman 1964
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available