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Carcharias sp.

genus Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Elasmobranchii, order Lamniformes, family Odontaspididae

• Distribution
• Paleogene: Fukuoka
• Oligocene: Kagawa
• Miocene: Ishikawa, Saitama
• Holocene: Aichi

• Subtaxa
• C. taurus, Sand tiger shark