Cretoxyrhinidae Glickman, 1958

Newbrey, Michael G., Siversson, Mikael, Cook, Todd D., Fotheringham, Allison M. & Sanchez, Rebecca L., 2015, Vertebral morphology, dentition, age, growth, and ecology of the large lamniform shark Cardabiodon ricki, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (4), pp. 877-897 : 882

Family Cretoxyrhinidae Glickman, 1958 Genus Cretoxyrhina Glickman, 1958

Type species: Oxyrhina mantelli Agassiz, 1843 . Eight of nine syntypes listed in Agassiz (1843: pl. 33, excluding a different taxon represented by fig. 5) are from the Chalk of the Lewes area, East Sussex, UK. The precise stratigraphical origin of the syntypes is unknown. In the mid-1800’s there were several pits around Lewes with chalks of Cenomanian to early Coniacian age (see Siverson et al. 2013: 89).