Kingdom Animalia Family Lamnidae Rank Genus Subclass Elasmobranchii | Superorder Selachimorpha Phylum Chordata Order Lamniformes | |
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Similar Isurus hastalis, Otodus, Hemipristis serra, Cretolamna, Isurus | ||
Cosmopolitodus is an extinct genus of sharks, commonly known as mackerel sharks or white sharks.
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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..
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