Published November 28, 2025
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Otodus Agassiz 1843
Authors/Creators
- 1. Merwedelaan 6 4535 ET Terneuzen
- 2. Departamento de Geologia and Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749 - 016 Lisbon, Portugal
Description
Genus Otodus Agassiz, 1843
Type species. Carcharodon megalodon Agassiz, 1843
Notes
Published as part of Landau, Bernard. M., Hovestadt, Dirk C. & Da Silva, Carlos M., 2025, A new chondrichthyan (Sharks and Rays) Fossil Assemblage from the Miocene Cacela Fm. at Albufeira (Algarve, Portugal) with two new species: Palaeoecology and Biogeography, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5724 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5724.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17894463
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Agassiz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Family
- Lamnidae
- Genus
- Otodus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Otodus Agassiz, 1843 sec. Landau, Hovestadt & Silva, 2025
References
- Agassiz, L. (1843) Recherches sur les poissons fossils. 15 th & 16 th Livraisons (March 1843). Vol. 3. Jent and Gassmann (text), Soleure and H. Nicolet (planches), Neuchatel, iv + 270 pp., 12 pls. [pp. [i] - [iv] + 157 - 390 + 382 * - 382 ** + 1-32 + [33] - [34], pls. 1 + 18 + 22 + 22 a + 22 b + 26 a + 38 + 40 b + 40 c + 40 d + 45 + 47]