Cretalamna
Extinct genus of sharks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cretalamna is a genus of extinct otodontid shark that lived from the latest Early Cretaceous to Eocene epoch (about 103 to 46 million years ago). It is considered by many to be the ancestor of the largest sharks to have ever lived, such as Otodus angustidens, Otodus chubutensis, and Otodus megalodon.
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Jaws and teeth of the C. hattini holotype (LACM 128126) from the Niobrara Formation of Kansas | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Lamniformes |
Family: | †Otodontidae |
Genus: | †Cretalamna Glükman, 1958 |
Type species | |
†Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz, 1835 | |
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