Lamniformes

Lamniformes
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous–present Possible Late Jurassic record if the Palaeocarcharias are a lamniform
Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Clade: Euselachii
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: Lamniformes
L. S. Berg, 1958
Families

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The Lamniformes (/ˈlæmnɪfɔːrmiːz/, from Greek lamna "fish of prey") are an order of sharks. They are commonly known as mackerel sharks. The order include the Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and Shortfin mako shark (Isurus paucus) from example.

Extinct family include the Otodontidae and Cretoxyrhinidae. This family include the famous megatoothed shark Carcharocles megalodon of Neogene and the Ginsu shark (Cretoxyrhina mantelli) of Early and Late Cretaceous, with several others now extinct.

References

  1. ↑ Donley, Jeanine M.; Sepulveda, Chugey A.; Aalbers, Scott A.; McGillivray, David G.; Syme, Douglas A.; Bernal, Diego (2012-10-01). "Effects of temperature on power output and contraction kinetics in the locomotor muscle of the regionally endothermic common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)". Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 38 (5): 1507–1519. Bibcode:2012FPBio..38.1507D. doi:10.1007/s10695-012-9641-1. ISSN 1573-5168. PMID 22527612.
  2. ↑ Shimada, Kenshu; Becker, Martin A.; Griffiths, Michael L. (2021-11-02). "Body, jaw, and dentition lengths of macrophagous lamniform sharks, and body size evolution in Lamniformes with special reference to 'off-the-scale' gigantism of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon". Historical Biology. 33 (11): 2543–2559. Bibcode:2021HBio...33.2543S. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1812598. ISSN 0891-2963.
  3. ↑ Siverson, Mikael (January 1999). "A new large lamniform shark from the uppermost Gearle Siltstone (Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous) of Western Australia". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 90 (1): 49–66. doi:10.1017/S0263593300002509. ISSN 1473-7116.
  4. ↑ Nelson, Joseph S. (2006-05-19). Fishes of the World. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-75644-6.

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