Carcharodon plicatilis

Carcharodon plicatilis, or Cosmopolitodus plicatilis, is an extinct species of macroptorial-shark that lived in Miocene period.^[1][2]

Carcharodon plicatilis Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Division:	Selachii
Order:	Lamniformes
Family:	Lamnidae
Genus:	Carcharodon
Species:	†C. plicatilis
Binomial name
†Carcharodon plicatilis (Agassiz, 1843)
Synonyms
Cosmopolitodus plicatilis Oxyrhina xiphodon (Agassiz, 1838) Cosmopolitodus cf. hastalis (Agassiz, 1843)[citation needed] Carcharodon xiphodon Cosmopolitodus cf. plicatilis

Taxonomy

The genus Cosmopolitodus is believed to be invalid, and the genus Carcharodon would be more appropriate, the name Carcharodon plicatilis is the most commonly used by paleontologists today to refer to C. xiphodon. Some scientists consider C. xiphodon to be synonymous with C. planus and C. hastalis, but not the evidence for this.^[3][4][5]