Cosmopolitodus
| Cosmopolitodus Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene | |
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| Fossil tooth of Cosmopolitodus hastalis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | Lamnidae |
| Genus: | Cosmopolitodus Glikman, 1964 |
Cosmopolitodus is an extinct genus of sharks, commonly known as mackerel sharks or white sharks.
Fossil reports
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 20.43 to 3.6 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata in the Pliocene of Libya, the Netherlands, Portugal,india,Italy and in the Miocene of Chile, the Czech Republic, France, Malta, the Netherlands, Peru and Portugal.. [1]
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