| Lamnoidea Temporal range:
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| Lamna nasus (top) and Otodus megalodon (bottom) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Superfamily: | Lamnoidea Bonaparte, 1835[1] |
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Lamnoidea is a proposed superfamily of mackerel sharks that includes the families Lamnidae and Otodontidae. A sister group relationship between lamnids and otodontids is supported by synapomorphies including regional endothermy, tooth morphology, and rostral cartilage morphology.[2][3][4]
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- ^ Ferrón, H.G. (2017). "Regional endothermy as a trigger for gigantism in some extinct macropredatory sharks". PLOS ONE. 12 (9): e0185185. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1285185F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185185. PMC 5609766. PMID 28938002.
- ^ Cooper, J.A. (2020). "Scaling a giant" (PDF). Geoscientist. 30 (10): 10–15. doi:10.1144/geosci2020-115. S2CID 242895754.
- ^ Greenfield, T. (2022). "List of skeletal material from megatooth sharks (Lamniformes, Otodontidae)" (PDF). Paleoichthys. 4: 1–9.