-
belonging to the
order Lamniformes. Its
members have been
described as
megatoothed sharks. They
lived from the
Early Cretaceous to the Pliocene, and included...
- "tooth") – thus, "ear-shaped tooth", is an
extinct species of
prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the
genus Otodus,
lived from
Early Miocene to
Middle Miocene...
-
Otodus angustidens is an
extinct species of
prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the
genus Otodus,
which lived during the Late
Eocene and
Miocene epochs...
- 4275. Brignon, A. (2021). "Historical and
nomenclatural remarks on some
megatoothed shark teeth (Elasmobranchii, Otodontidae) from the
Cenozoic of New Jersey...
- to
include the
species sometimes ****igned to
Carcharocles (i.e., the
megatoothed lineage,
including megalodon) in
order to be monophyletic.
Otodus includes...
-
teeth can
reach up to 130
millimetres (5.1 in), and
belonged to a
large "
megatoothed" shark. It is
known that
there is at
least one
genus in the
family Otodontidae...
- †Otodontidae Gluckman, 1964 (extinct, Late
Cretaceous to Pliocene) (
megatoothed sharks)
Genus †Cretalamna Gluckman, 1958
Genus †Otodus (Ag****iz, 1843)...
- Miocene, and
comments on the
taxonomy of
otodontid genera,
including the '
megatoothed' clade".
Historical Biology. 29 (5): 1–11. doi:10.1080/08912963.2016...
-
chubutensis Teeth A
megatoothed shark;
sometimes placed in
separate genus Carcharocles Parotodus P.
benedenii Teeth A
possible megatoothed shark Physogaleus...
-
diversification correlates with
emergence of
gigantic macro-predators such as
megatoothed sharks and
raptorial sperm whales.
Prominent examples are O. megalodon...
