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Carcharias polygyrus
Taxonomy
Carcharias polygyrus was named by Agassiz (1838). It is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Carcharodon polygyrus by Agassiz (1843); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon megalodon by Chapman and Cudmore (1924); it was misspelled as Carcharodon polygurus by Clark (1895), Rapp (1946); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharias subauriculatus by Marsili et al. (2007).
It was recombined as Carcharodon polygyrus by Agassiz (1843); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon megalodon by Chapman and Cudmore (1924); it was misspelled as Carcharodon polygurus by Clark (1895), Rapp (1946); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharias subauriculatus by Marsili et al. (2007).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data