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Otodus chubutensis
Taxonomy
Carcharodon chubutensis was named by Ameghino (1901). It is not a trace fossil.
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon megalodon by Chapman and Cudmore (1924); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharias subauriculatus by Marsili et al. (2007); it was recombined as Megaselachus chubutensis by Cook et al. (2010); it was recombined as Carcharocles chubutensis by Aguilera et al. (2017); it was recombined as Otodus chubutensis by Maisch IV et al. (2018), Maisch et al. (2020), Goedert et al. (2025).
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharodon megalodon by Chapman and Cudmore (1924); it was synonymized subjectively with Carcharias subauriculatus by Marsili et al. (2007); it was recombined as Megaselachus chubutensis by Cook et al. (2010); it was recombined as Carcharocles chubutensis by Aguilera et al. (2017); it was recombined as Otodus chubutensis by Maisch IV et al. (2018), Maisch et al. (2020), Goedert et al. (2025).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Carcharodon chubutensis Ameghino p. 83 |
| 1906 | Carcharodon chubutensis Ameghino p. 183 figs. Fig. 49 |
| 2010 | Megaselachus chubutensis Cook et al. p. 80 fig. 2B,C |
| 2017 | Carcharocles chubutensis Aguilera et al. |
| 2018 | Otodus chubutensis Maisch IV et al. p. 362 figs. 4G-J |
| 2020 | Otodus chubutensis Maisch et al. p. 122 |
| 2025 | Otodus chubutensis Goedert et al. |
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†Otodus chubutensis Ameghino 1901
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available