Carcharodon

Carcharodon

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 451 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 451 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 23 of 451 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 451 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 257 of 451 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 105 of 451 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 451 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 15 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 29 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 43 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 60 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 42 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 55 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 104 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 65 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

451 occurrences of Carcharodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

451 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

170 formations

Pisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.44°S, 74.87°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WPisco — 14.56°S, 75.67°WPisco — 14.34°S, 75.91°WPisco — 15.06°S, 74.08°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.88°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.70°WCalvert — 37.77°N, 77.28°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WCalvert — 37.54°N, 77.44°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WBahía Inglesa — 27.08°S, 70.84°WBahía Inglesa — 27.14°S, 70.88°WBahía Inglesa — 27.04°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.72°S, 70.99°WSenhata — 35.16°N, 139.86°ESenhata — 35.16°N, 139.82°ESan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WPurisima — 36.95°N, 122.04°WPurisima — 37.29°N, 122.41°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WTemblor — 35.47°N, 118.91°WTemblor — 36.10°N, 120.40°WLomita Marl — 33.78°N, 118.34°WArgille Azzurre — 44.49°N, 11.03°EArgille Azzurre — 44.30°N, 11.57°EArgille Azzurre — 44.26°N, 11.66°EYsidro — 27.70°N, 114.90°WYsidro — 26.35°N, 112.00°WChilcatay — 14.77°S, 75.39°WChilcatay — 14.62°S, 75.63°WChilcatay — 14.58°S, 75.66°WPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°EMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.70°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WCamacho — 33.89°S, 58.41°WCamacho — 34.35°S, 57.92°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EOgikubo — 36.67°N, 138.09°EYorktown — 33.79°N, 77.65°WYorktown — 33.58°N, 77.42°WBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.98°S, 145.05°EFujina — 35.43°N, 133.04°EFujina — 35.40°N, 132.91°EFujina — 35.48°N, 133.06°ESanta Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.04°WSanta Margarita — 37.01°N, 122.01°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°W

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The named rock units Carcharodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 146 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 127 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carcharodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 368 sites for Carcharodon, and this reads 240 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

237 references

Each of the 451 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. 225 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 content3

Picture of Carcharodon

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Carcharodon carcharias · L-MEP:W153_322.6FL_male

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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. Smith 1838