Carcharomodus

Carcharomodus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene– Early Pliocene
Holotype of Carcharomodus escheri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Lamnidae
Genus: †Carcharomodus
Kriwet 2014
Species

Carcharomodus escheri

Carcharomodus is an extinct genus of lamnid shark. Its only species is Carcharomodus escheri,[1] commonly nicknamed the serrated mako shark or Escher's mako shark. It is an extinct lamnid that lived during the Miocene and that was formerly thought to have been transitional between the broad-toothed "mako" Cosmopolitodus hastalis and the modern great white, but is now considered to be an evolutionary dead-end with the discovery of Carcharodon hubbelli. Fossil examples have been found along northern Atlantic coastlines and in parts of Western and Central Europe.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b "A partial skeleton of a new lamniform mackerel shark from the Miocene of Europe" (PDF).
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