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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | Cetorhinidae |
| Genus: | †Caucasochasma Prokofiev & Sychevskaya, 2018[1] |
| Species: | †C. zherikhini
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| †Caucasochasma zherikhini Prokofiev & Sychevskaya, 2018
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Caucasochasma is an extinct genus of basking sharks that lived during the Oligocene. It contains one species, C. zherikhini. It is known from a mostly-complete skeleton from the Pshekha Formation of Russia. It has a body plan more similar to sand sharks than to extant basking sharks, which indicates that it was a benthic filter feeder.[1]
- ^ a b Prokofiev, A.M.; Sychevskaya, E.K. (2018). "Basking shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the lower Oligocene of the Caucasus". Journal of Ichthyology. 58 (2): 127–138. Bibcode:2018JIch...58..127P. doi:10.1134/S0032945218020121. S2CID 255271640.