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Carcharodon purplei
Taxonomy
Carcharodon purplei was named by Jordan and Hanibal (1923). Its type specimen is LSJU 974, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lomita Quarry [Lomita Marl], which is in a Pleistocene marine marl in the Lomita Marl Formation of California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1923 | Carcharodon purplei Jordan and Hanibal p. 56 figs. Plate V. g.; VI. b. |
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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 purplei Jordan and Hanibal 1923
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Carcharodon purplei (type locality: 52242) |