Cretalamna

Cretalamna

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lamniformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Selachimorpha Superordo: Galeomorphii Ordo: Lamniformes

Familia: †Otodontidae
Genus: †Cretalamna
Species: †C. appendiculata – †C. aschersoni – †C. biauriculata – †C. borealis – †C. catoxodon – †C. deschutteri – †C. ewelli – †C. gertericorum – †C. hattini – †C. lata – †C. maroccana – †C. pachyrhiza – †C. sarcoportheta – †C. serrata

Name

Cretalamna Glikman, 1958

Type species: Otodus appendiculatus Agassiz, 1843

Synonyms

• Cretolamna Glikman, 1958

References

• Glikman, L.S. 1958. Rates of evolution in lamnoid sharks [in Russian]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 123: 568–571. Reference page. 
• Siversson, M., Lindgren, J., Newbrey, M.G., Cederström, P. & Cook, T.D. 2015. Cenomanian-Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mid-palaeolatitude sharks of Cretalamna appendiculata type. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(2): 339–384. DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0137 [Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Notes

• The spelling of the name is controversial. The original spelling is Cretalamna, but the synonym Cretolamna is frequently in use by some authors. For comments on the spelling of the genus name see Siversson et al., 2015