Carcharodon is a genus of sharks within the family Lamnidae, colloquially called the "white sharks". The only extant member is the great white shark. Extinct species include C. hubbelli and C. hastali
Carcharodon carcharias
Cosmopolitodus hastalis 1
Tooth evolution in Carcharodon
Extinct white shark tooth.
Carcharodon hastalis is an extinct species of mackerel shark that lived between thirty and one million years ago during the late Oligocene to the Early Pleistocene epochs. The maximum adult length is
Carcharodon
…colloquially called the "white sharks". The only extant member is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Extinct species include C. hubbelli and C. hastalis. The first appearance of the genus in the fossil record may have been as early as the Late Oligocene, but certainly by the Early Miocene. The fossil…
Carcharodon hastalis jaws
A broad form C. hastalis tooth
A narrow form C. hastalis tooth