Carcharias contortidens (Agassiz, 1843)

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

Carcharias contortidens (Agassiz, 1843)

Tooth type: Tearing.

The only recent species is C. taurus Rafinesque, 1810 , which has very similar teeth to the above fossil taxon (Reinecke et al., 2011). It feeds mainly on bony fishes and elasmobranchs, including members of the families Carcharhinidae , Dasyatidae , Hexanchidae , Rajidae , and Rhinobatidae (Cortés, 1999; Smale, 2005; Lucifora et al., 2009). It lives near the bottom from 1 to 232 m depth, but mostly between 15 to 25 m (Ebert et al., 2021). TL for recent C. taurus is 4.4 (Cortés, 1999).