Otodus megalodon (/ˈmɛɡələdɒn/ MEG-əl-ə-don; meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived...

Otodus is an extinct, cosmopolitan genus of mackerel shark which lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch. The name Otodus comes from Ancient Greek...

this species in the genus Carcharocles ( now Otodus). Finally, the complete Otodus obliquus to O. megalodon progression became clear and has since gained...

Otodus angustidens is an extinct species of prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the genus Otodus, which lived during the Late Eocene and Miocene epochs about...

†Otodus (Agassiz, 1843) †Otodus obliquus (Agassiz, 1838) †Otodus angustidens (Agassiz, 1843) †Otodus chubutensis (Agassiz, 1843) †Otodus megalodon (Agassiz...

Otodus auriculatus is an extinct species of large sharks in the genus Otodus of the family Otodontidae, closely related to the sharks of the genus Otodus...

genus Otodus. The genus Cretalamna which lived from the mid-Cretaceous-Paleogene is believed to be directly ancestral to Otodus, and thus to megalodon. There...

Otodontidae which may represent a transitional chronospecies between Otodus auriculatus and Otodus angustidens. They differ from the former with a less curved...

The whale may have interacted with the large extinct shark megalodon (Otodus megalodon), competing with it for a similar food source. Its extinction...

the largest sharks to have ever lived, such as Otodus angustidens, Otodus chubutensis, and Otodus megalodon. Cretalamna was first described by Swiss naturalist...

serrations being found in great whites but not extinct giant makos. Otodus megalodon teeth are the largest of any shark, extinct or living, and are among...

the body form of Otodus megalodon inferred by Cooper et al. (2022), compare an incomplete vertebral column of a specimen of O. megalodon from the Miocene...

Ciobanu, R.; Codrea, V. (2016). "The first record of the giant shark Otodus megalodon (Agassiz, 1835) from Romania". Brukenthal, Acta Musei. 11 (3): 507–526...

ISBN 978-0-12-415031-7. Shimada, K. (2019). "The size of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), revisited". Historical Biology. 33 (7):...

modern times List of urban legends Rare species Otodus is the currently accepted genus name for megalodon. Older sources refer to the genus as Carcharodon...

the time such as the orcinine Hemisyntrachelus and the extinct shark Otodus megalodon. The holotype specimen, MB-1COC-11.17.18, an incomplete skeleton, was...

H. serra was contemporary with pups of the large lamniform shark Otodus megalodon, and both it and the great hammerhead are theorized to have preyed...

Otodus hastalis is an extinct dubious species of Lamniform shark what lived in the Miocene epoch, and was related to Megalodon. Otodus hastalis is a dubious...

belonging to great hammerheads suggest the shark once preyed on juvenile Otodus megalodon, alongside the extinct snaggletooth shark Hemipristis serra, with which...

than the individuals, whereas other great marine predators, such as Otodus megalodon, likely exceeded the size of their targets. Fossil evidence of Orcinus...

& Mineral Resources official website "Fossil, Fossilized Teeth of the Megalodon Shark | NCpedia". ncpedia.org. Retrieved March 17, 2016. "North Dakota...

special reference to 'off-the-scale' gigantism of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon". Historical Biology. 33 (11): 1–17. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1812598...

fossil record is the megalodon (Otodus megalodon), a colossal Neogene lamniform. The range of estimates of the maximum length for megalodon are from 17 to 20...

extinct genus Otodus were huge. A giant shark, Otodus megalodon is by far the biggest mackerel shark ever known. Most estimates of megalodon's size extrapolate...

were probably preyed upon by predatory whales and sharks, including Otodus megalodon. Recently,[when?] a large fossil ziphiid sample was discovered off...

Paraceratherium was among the largest land mammals Reconstructed jaws of megalodon (Otodus megalodon) Deinotherium Kelenken guillermoi Gastornis gigantea The greater...

probably preyed upon by killer sperm whales and large sharks such as megalodon. In 2008, a large number of fossil ziphiids were discovered off the coast...

Becker, Martin A.; Jöns, Niels (May 31, 2022). "Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes". Nature...

megatoothed sharks and raptorial sperm whales. Prominent examples are O. megalodon and L. melvillei. Other notable large sharks were O. chubutensis, Isurus...

ovoviviparous reproduction. The Lamniformes also include the extinct megalodon, Otodus megalodon. Orectolobiformes: They are commonly referred to as the carpet...