Galeocerdo
Galeocerdo Temporal range:
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Galeocerdo cuvier | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
Family: | Carcharhinidae |
Genus: | Galeocerdo J. P. Müller & Henle, 1837 |
Type species | |
Galeocerdo cuvier | |
Species | |
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Galeocerdo is a genus of requiem sharks that have lived since the Paleocene epoch. While these sharks were formerly diverse, only G. cuvier (the modern tiger shark) survives today.[2]
Species[]
Species in the genus Galeocerdo include:[3]
- †Galeocerdo aduncus
- †Galeocerdo alabamensis
- †Galeocerdo clarkensis
- Galeocerdo cuvier
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References[]
- ^ "Fossilworks Galeocerdo".
- ^ "iNaturalist.org".
- ^ "Fossilworks: Galeocerdo". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Shark Teeth - Galeocerdo mayumbensis Fossils". www.blackriverfossils.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-29. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
Categories:
- Galeocerdo
- Shark genera
- Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller
- Taxa named by Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
- Fish genera with one living species