Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Alternative combinations: Carcharias auriculatus, Carcharocles auriculatus, Carcharodon auriculatus, Procarcharodon auriculatus, Squalus auriculatus
Synonym: Carcharodon robustus Davis 1888
Belongs to Otodus according to E. V. Popov et al. 2025
See also Agassiz 1835, Agassiz 1839, Agassiz 1843, Applegate and Espinosa-Arrubarrena 1996, Cantalice et al. 2019, Case 1981, Chapman 1918, Chapman and Cudmore 1924, Chapman and Pritchard 1904, Davis 1888, Hay 1902, Hector 1894, Leriche 1926, Long 1992, Maisch et al. 2014, Otero et al. 2013, Rapp 1946, Trif et al. 2016 and Woodward 1889
Sister taxa: Otodus (Carcharocles), Otodus (Otodus), Otodus apiculatus, Otodus chubutensis, Otodus isoelicus, Otodus lanceolatus, Otodus levis, Otodus megalodon, Otodus obliquus, Otodus recticonus, Otodus sokolovi, Otodus subplicatus, Otodus tricuspis, Otodus trigonatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (3 collections), Panama (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), New Zealand (1), United States (2: Florida, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (4), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi), Uzbekistan (1)
• Cenozoic of New Zealand (2), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1)
Total: 46 collections including 47 occurrences
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