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Otodus (Megaselachus)
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).
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
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1964 | Megaselachus Glyckman |
| 1977 | Megaselachus Herman p. 166 |
| 2007 | Megaselachus Cahuzac et al. p. 18 |
| 2019 | Otodus (Megaselachus) Kocsis et al. p. 793 |
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Subg. †Otodus (Megaselachus) Glyckman 1964
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available