Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936)

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 32

Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936)

Tooth type: Tearing.

The OMM fossils have been assigned to P. kamoharai , which is an extant species. It lives offshore (occasionally closer to the shore), from the surface down to at least 590 m depth (Compagno, 1984; Nelson, 2006; Ebert et al., 2021). It feeds on small pelagic bony fishes, squids as well as shrimps (Compagno 1984; Estupiñán-Montaño and Galván-Magaña 2021) and has a TL value of 4.2 ±0.60 (Froese and Pauly, 2019).