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Although a thresher shark, scientists hypothesized that A. palatasi may have looked similar to the great white shark.. A. palatasi is only known from isolated teeth. They are large, measuring up to an excess of 4 centimetres (2 in) in height and suggesting a shark that grew to similar sizes or was larger than the modern great white shark, [3] which grows between 3.3–4.8 metres (11–16 ft ...
Galeocerdo mayumbensis is an extinct species of sharks that lived in the Miocene period. [1] A relative of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), it lived in North America, South America, mainland Africa and Madagascar. [2] The teeth of G. mayumbensis are different from those of G. aduncus.
Alopias grandis is a species of giant thresher shark from the Miocene. Estimates calculated from teeth comparisons suggest the living animal was comparable in size to the extant great white shark. [3] Remains generally consist of teeth, which have been found in the United States in the Calvert Formation of Virginia and Maryland, [4] and in ...
Cooper & Pimiento (2024) assess the functional diversity of sharks from 66 million years to the present using teeth, finding that shark functional diversity was high between the Palaeocene and its Miocene peak, and subsequently declined over the last 10 million years to its lowest value in the present.
Hemipristis serra is an extinct species of weasel shark which existed during the Miocene epoch. It was described by Louis Agassiz in 1843. [ 1 ] While today's snaggletooth shark is not very large or dangerous, Hemipristis serra , which lived in the Atlantic Ocean during the Oligocene and Miocene, was considerably larger than its modern-day ...
Squalodon is an extinct genus of whales of the Oligocene and Miocene epochs, belonging to the family Squalodontidae. Named by Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup in 1840, [1] it was originally believed to be an iguanodontid dinosaur but has since been reclassified. The name Squalodon comes from Squalus, a genus of shark. As a result, its name ...
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Pages in category "Miocene sharks" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alopias palatasi;