Biology:Otodontidae
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Short description: Extinct family of sharks
| Otodontidae | |
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| Teeth and jaws of Cretalamna hattini | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Superfamily: | Lamnoidea |
| Family: | †Otodontidae Gluckman 1964 |
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Cretalamna | |
Otodontidae is an extinct family of sharks belonging to the order Lamniformes. Its members have been described as megatoothed sharks.[1][2] They lived from the Early Cretaceous to the Pliocene, and included genera such as Otodus, including the giant megalodon.[3] Recent studies of the newly described genus Megalolamna indicate that the members of the genus Carcharocles should be reclassified as members of the genus Otodus.[4] The genus Cretalamna which lived from the mid-Cretaceous-Paleogene is believed to be directly ancestral to Otodus, and thus to megalodon.[5]
References
- ↑ "Mega-toothed Shark". https://naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/mega-toothed-shark.
- ↑ Cartier, Kimberly M.S. (2018-12-11). "Extinct Megatoothed Shark May Have Been Warm-Blooded". https://eos.org/articles/extinct-megatoothed-shark-may-have-been-warm-blooded.
- ↑ Joseph S. Nelson (2006). "Order Lamniformes". Fishes of the World (4th ed.). John Wiley and Sons. pp. 57–60. ISBN 978-0-471-25031-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=-bO-2unzU-8C&pg=PA57.
- ↑ Large prehistoric shark
- ↑ Jun A. Ebersole; Dana J. Ehret (2018). "A new species of Cretalamna sensu stricto (Lamniformes, Otodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) of Alabama, USA". PeerJ 6 (e4229): e4229. doi:10.7717/peerj.4229. PMID 29333348.
Wikidata ☰ Q7108922 entry
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