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Carcharocles megalodon

Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz, 1843)

Invalid synonym: Carcharodon megalodon

• Extinct species: Paleocene - Pliocene (66.0 - 3.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Elasmobranchii, order Lamniformes, family Otodontidae, genus Carcharocles

• Distribution
• Miocene: Iwate, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Kanagawa, Aichi, Gifu
• Pliocene: Chiba
• Investigation in progress: Niigata