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Carcharocles
Taxonomy
Carcharocles was named by Jordan (1923) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-l T Plio Sepkoski's reference number: 884,958]. It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon by Gottfried et al. (1996); it was reranked as Otodus (Carcharocles) by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Carcharodontidae by Jordan and Hanibal (1923); to Lamniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Lamnidae by Jordan (1963), Long (1992) and Hastings and Dooley (2017); to Otodontidae by Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Antunes and Balbino (2003), Kocsis (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Pimiento et al. (2010), Otero et al. (2013), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016), Boessenecker (2016), Kent (2018) and Landini et al. (2019); and to Otodus by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon by Gottfried et al. (1996); it was reranked as Otodus (Carcharocles) by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Carcharodontidae by Jordan and Hanibal (1923); to Lamniformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Lamnidae by Jordan (1963), Long (1992) and Hastings and Dooley (2017); to Otodontidae by Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Antunes and Balbino (2003), Kocsis (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Pimiento et al. (2010), Otero et al. (2013), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016), Boessenecker (2016), Kent (2018) and Landini et al. (2019); and to Otodus by Szabo et al. (2017), Ebersole et al. (2019) and Boessenecker et al. (2019).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Carcharocles Jordan |
| 1923 | Carcharocles Jordan and Hanibal p. 56 |
| 1963 | Carcharocles Jordan p. 599 |
| 1992 | Carcharocles Long p. 28 |
| 1998 | Carcharocles Yabe and Hirayama p. 46 |
| 2002 | Carcharocles Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Carcharocles Antunes and Balbino p. 144 |
| 2007 | Carcharocles Kocsis p. 34 |
| 2009 | Carcharocles Cicimurri and Knight p. 631 |
| 2010 | Carcharocles Pimiento et al. p. 3 |
| 2013 | Carcharocles Otero et al. p. 19 figs. Fg. 4: 3-8 |
| 2016 | Carcharocles Boessenecker p. 3 |
| 2016 | Carcharocles Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 84 |
| 2017 | Carcharocles Hastings and Dooley p. 83 |
| 2017 | Otodus (Carcharocles) Szabo et al. |
| 2018 | Carcharocles Kent p. 80 |
| 2019 | Otodus (Carcharocles) Boessenecker et al. p. 9 |
| 2019 | Otodus (Carcharocles) Ebersole et al. p. 28 |
| 2019 | Carcharocles Landini et al. p. 358 |
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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.
G. †Carcharocles Jordan 1923
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†Carcharias angustidens sokolowi Jakel 1895
†Carcharocles rectus Agassiz 1856
†Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available