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Carcharhinus sp.

genus Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816

• Modern species: Eocene - Present (40.4 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Elasmobranchii, order Carcharhiniformes, family Carcharhinidae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Nagano, Ishikawa, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Gifu, Mie
• Pliocene: Shizuoka
• Pleistocene: Yamagata
• Holocene: Aichi

• Subtaxa
• C. acanthodon
• C. brevipinna, Spinner shark
• C. priscus