Cosmopolitodus

Cosmopolitodus
Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene
Fossil tooth of Cosmopolitodus hastalis
Scientific classification
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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