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Serratolamna serrata

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae

Taxonomy

Otodus serratus was named by Agassiz (1838).

It was recombined as Lamna serrata by Dartevelle and Casier (1943), Weiler (1964); it was recombined as Cretolamna serrata by Cappetta and Case (1975), Herman (1977), Case (1979); it was recombined as Serratolamna serrata by Landemaine (1991), Case and Cappetta (1997), Cappetta and Corral (1999), Underwood and Mitchell (2000), Case et al. (2001), Gottfried et al. (2001), Zalmout and Mustafa (2001), Becker et al. (2004), Case and Cappetta (2004), Becker et al. (2006), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2008), Bogan and Agnolin (2010), Cuny et al. (2012), Otero et al. (2013), Prámparo et al. (2013), Corral et al. (2016), Case et al. (2017), Hoganson et al. (2019), Ceballos-Izquierdo et al. (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

S. khderii, S. lerichei

Entered

by M. Uhen on 2009-09-15; modified by M. Clapham on 2021-08-06

Synonyms

Lamna serra was named by Woodward (1889). Its type specimen is BMNH P.5761, a set of teeth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mont-Aimé, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial horizon in France.

It was synonymized subjectively with Otodus serratus by Leriche (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Cretolamna serrata by Herman (1977); it was synonymized subjectively with Serratolamna serrata by Brignon (2017).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1838	Otodus serratus Agassiz figs. Pl 32, figs 27,28
1843	Otodus serratus Agassiz pp. 272-273
1889	Lamna serra Woodward p. 400
1930	Lamna serra Maury p. 80
1943	Lamna serrata Dartevelle and Casier p. 126 figs. Pl 5, figs 16-20
1964	Lamna serrata Weiler p. 11 fig. 19
1975	Cretolamna serrata Cappetta and Case p. 22 figs. Pl 5, fig 28
1977	Cretolamna serrata Herman p. 217 figs. Pl 9, fig 5
1979	Cretolamna serrata Case p. 84
1991	Serratolamna serrata Landemaine p. 14 fig. 5
1997	Serratolamna serrata Case and Cappetta p. 139 figs. Pl 3, figs 5-8
1999	Serratolamna serrata Cappetta and Corral p. 347 figs. Pl 1, figs 4-6
2000	Serratolamna serrata Underwood and Mitchell p. 26 fig. 4
2001	Serratolamna serrata Case et al. p. 118 figs. Pl 2, figs 29,30
2001	Serratolamna serrata Gottfried et al. p. 495 fig. 2i
2001	Serratolamna serrata Zalmout and Mustafa p. 392 figs. Pl 1, figs 4,5
2004	Serratolamna serrata Becker et al. p. 785 fig. 4M,N
2004	Serratolamna serrata Case and Cappetta p. 11
2006	Serratolamna serrata Becker et al. p. 705 figs. 3.20, 3.21
2008	Serratolamna serrata Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 161 fig. 2
2010	Serratolamna serrata Bogan and Agnolin p. 176 fig. 2
2012	Serratolamna serrata Cuny et al. p. 110 figs. 3J-L
2013	Serratolamna serrata Otero et al. p. 19 figs. 4.9-4.16
2013	Serratolamna serrata Prámparo et al.
2016	Serratolamna serrata Corral et al. p. 648 figs. 6C-N
2017	Serratolamna serrata Case et al. p. 71 fig. 3I
2019	Serratolamna serrata Hoganson et al. p. 26 figs. 8.7, 8.8
2021	Serratolamna serrata Ceballos-Izquierdo et al. p. 3 fig. 2A,B

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Chondrichthyes

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Elasmobranchii	(Bonaparte 1838)
—	Euselachii	()
—	Neoselachii	Compagno 1977
superorder	Galeomorphii	Compagno 1973
order	Lamniformes	Berg 1958
family	Serratolamnidae
genus	Serratolamna
species	serrata	()

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.

†Serratolamna serrata Agassiz 1838

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Invalid names: Lamna serra Woodward 1889 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Created:

2009-07-21 07:05:21

Modified:

2009-07-21 09:05:21

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Wagner 2023, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Turonian to the top of the Maastrichtian or 93.90000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (51 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cretaceous	100.5 - 66.0	Brazil (Pernambuco)	Lamna serra (167994)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Czechia (Ústí nad Labem)	Otodus serratus (276651)
Santonian - Campanian	85.7 - 72.2	Angola (Cabinda)	Lamna serrata (242366)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Egypt (Al Wadi al Jadid)	Lamna serra (38669)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Germany	Lamna serrata (241720)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Germany	Lamna serrata (241700)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (New Jersey)	Serratolamna serrata (88610)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mexico (Coahuila)	Serratolamna serrata (79607)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian	83.6 - 66.0	Cuba	Serratolamna serrata (220215 231082)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian	83.6 - 66.0	USA (New Jersey)	Cretolamna serrata (213744)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Mexico (Guerrero)	Serratolamna serrata (235726)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Maryland)	Cretolamna serrata (125950)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Jordan	Serratolamna serrata (241398 241399)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Jordan (Amman)	Serratolamna serrata (241402)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Argentina (Santa Cruz)	Serratolamna serrata (230275)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Argentina (Río Negro)	Serratolamna serrata (231889)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (North Carolina)	Cretolamna serrata (71488) Serratolamna serrata (241417)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Morocco	Serratolamna serrata (99627 213665 213666)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Argentina (Mendoza)	Serratolamna serrata (200128)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Texas)	Serratolamna serrata (61738)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Spain (Burgos)	Serratolamna serrata (176782 213730)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (New Jersey)	Serratolamna serrata (61807)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Senegal	Serratolamna serrata (234419)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Morocco (Chaouia-Ouardigha)	Serratolamna serrata (92203)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (South Dakota)	Serratolamna serrata (90926)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Spain	Serratolamna serrata (275706)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (North Dakota)	Serratolamna serrata (179290 179292 213581 213582 213587 213589 213606 213615 213616)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Netherlands	Lamna serrata (241706)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Arkansas)	Serratolamna serrata (242204)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Venezuela	Serratolamna serrata (242309)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Madagascar (Mahajanga)	Serratolamna serrata (144918)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Belgium (Limburg)	Cretolamna serrata (241927)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Mexico (Coahuila)	Serratolamna serrata (79606)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Brazil (Paraíba)	Lamna serra (88070)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Jamaica	Serratolamna serrata (213579)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	France	Lamna serra (195628)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Maryland)	Lamna sp. (83331)