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Carcharodon hubbelli
Taxonomy
Carcharodon hubbelli was named by Ehret et al. (2012). Its type specimen is UF 226255, a partial skull (an articulated dentition including 222 teeth, 45 vertebral centra, portions of the left and right Mec- kel’s cartilages and palatoquadrates, and neurocranium.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2012 | Carcharodon hubbelli Ehret et al. p. 1146 figs. Fig. 6-6 |
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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 hubbelli Ehret et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. J. Ehret et al. 2012 | A lamnid shark that differs from all other lamnids by the following unique combination of dental characteristics: (1) An A3 tooth distally inclined; (2) an A1 tooth that is the largest tooth in the dentition and is symmetrical; (3) an A2 tooth that is slightly larger than the a2 tooth; (4) serrations present but not fully developed. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023 | |||||