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Carcharodon sp.

genus Carcharodon Smith, 1838

• Modern species: Eocene - Present (55.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

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

• Distribution
• Eocene-Oligocene: Fukuoka
• Miocene: Akita, Ishikawa, Tochigi, Ibaraki
• Pliocene: Akita
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido
• Holocene: Aichi

• Subtaxa
• C. angustidens => Otodus angustidens
• Carcharodon carcharias, Great white shark
• C. hastalis => Cosmopolitodus hastalis
• C. megalodon => Carcharocles megalodon