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Carcharhinus plumbeus (sandbar shark)
Taxonomy
Squalus plumbeus was named by Nardo (1827). It is extant.
It was recombined as Carcharhinus plumbeus by Purdy et al. (2001), Antunes and Balbino (2004), Marsili (2007), Marsili (2007), Cigala Fulgosi et al. (2009), García et al. (2011), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2015), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2015), Kent (2018), Lin et al. (2022), Malyshkina et al. (2023), Maisch IV et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Carcharhinus plumbeus by Purdy et al. (2001), Antunes and Balbino (2004), Marsili (2007), Marsili (2007), Cigala Fulgosi et al. (2009), García et al. (2011), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2015), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2015), Kent (2018), Lin et al. (2022), Malyshkina et al. (2023), Maisch IV et al. (2025).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2006-07-28
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1827 | Squalus plumbeus Nardo |
| 2001 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Purdy et al. p. 154 |
| 2004 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Antunes and Balbino p. 88 fig. 7c |
| 2007 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Marsili p. 27 fig. 2F |
| 2009 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Cigala Fulgosi et al. p. 16 figs. 7.26, 7.28 |
| 2011 | Carcharhinus plumbeus García et al. p. 484 figs. 7e-h, 8a-d |
| 2015 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 10 figs. 5A-F |
| 2015 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 61 fig. 6I,J |
| 2018 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Kent p. 118 |
| 2022 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Lin et al. p. 17 fig. 13 |
| 2023 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Malyshkina et al. p. 1735 figs. 6A-E |
| 2025 | Carcharhinus plumbeus Maisch IV et al. p. 31 |
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Carcharhinus plumbeus Nardo 1827 [sandbar shark]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 20.45000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (23 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquitanian - Langhian | USA (North Carolina) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (48887) | |
| Burdigalian | Saudi Arabia | Carcharhinus plumbeus (47026) | |
| Serravallian | South Korea | Carcharhinus plumbeus (226844) | |
| Tortonian | Panama (Colon) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (160781) | |
| Tortonian | Panama | Carcharhinus plumbeus (96700) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Panama (Panama) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (191995 191996) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (162452) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (276265) | |
| Messinian | Portugal | Carcharhinus plumbeus (91423) | |
| Messinian | Portugal (Alvalade) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (65955) | |
| Zanclean | Spain (Huelva) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (151889 151892 276726) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (52582) | |
| Pliocene | Italy | Carcharias glaucus (277827) | |
| Pliocene | Venezuela | Carcharhinus plumbeus (277948) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy | Carcharhinus plumbeus (277335) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (South Carolina) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (91707) | |
| Calabrian | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (20400 20402) | |
| Calabrian | Taiwan | Carcharhinus plumbeus (275913) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Alabama) | Carcharhinus plumbeus (187584) |