Carcharoides

Carcharoides is an extinct genus of mackerel shark which lived during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. It is a widespread genus, known from specimens in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. It is most common in the European portion of its range, being comparatively uncommon in other places. It is only known from isolated teeth, which are relatively delicate.

Carcharoides

Mason Hintermeister · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LamnidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 40 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya7.246 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

40 occurrences of Carcharoides on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

40 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

19 formations

Berchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°EJan Juc — 38.20°S, 144.27°ENavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WClifton — 38.48°S, 143.58°EBreda — 51.97°N, 6.73°EBreda — 51.92°N, 6.67°ERío Baguales — 50.73°S, 72.47°WFilakovo — 48.31°N, 19.70°ELoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EGaiman — 43.28°S, 65.45°WRzehakia — 48.33°N, 14.30°EMannum — 34.90°S, 139.30°EGlobigerina Limestone — 36.08°N, 14.24°ETörökbálint — 47.63°N, 18.71°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WBatesford Limestone — 38.09°S, 144.28°EPétervására — 48.24°N, 19.66°EMonte Leon — 50.30°S, 68.90°WPisco — 14.35°S, 75.89°WLoreto — 53.14°S, 71.06°W

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The named rock units Carcharoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carcharoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Carcharoides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

29 references

Each of the 40 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 17 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Carcharoides

Credit
Mason Hintermeister
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carcharoides was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLamnidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1901