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Carcharocles chubutensis

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Carcharocles chubutensis, meaning "glorious shark of Chubut", from Ancient Greek: κλέϝος (kléwos) “glory/fame” + καρχαρίας (karkharías) “shark”, is an extinct species of prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the genus Carcharocles, that lived during Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene epochs, approximately 28 – 5 million years ago. [1]

36 relations: Africa, Apex predator, Bone, Carcharocles, Carcharocles angustidens, Carcharocles auriculatus, Carcharodon, Cartilage, Cetacea, Chubut Province, Europe, Fish, Florentino Ameghino, Fossil, Genus, Largest prehistoric animals, List of apex predators, Lists of prehistoric fish, Louis Agassiz, Megalodon, Miocene, Myr, North America, Oligocene, Otodus, Paleontology, Pliocene, Prehistory, Sea turtle, Shark tooth, Sirenia, Skeleton, South America, Switzerland, Vertebra, Whale.

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Apex predator

An apex predator, also known as an alpha predator or top predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, with no natural predators.

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Bone

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the vertebrate skeleton.

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Carcharocles

Carcharocles is an extinct genus of sharks, belonging to the order Lamniformes.

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Carcharocles angustidens

Carcharocles angustidens is a species of prehistoric megatoothed sharks in the genus Carcharocles, which lived during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs about 33 to 22 million years ago.

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Carcharocles auriculatus

Carcharocles auriculatus is an extinct species of large sharks in the genus Carcharocles of the family Otodontidae, closely related to the sharks of the genus Otodus, and also closely related to the later species megalodon.

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Carcharodon

Carcharodon is a genus of sharks within the family Lamnidae.

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Cartilage

Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints, and is a structural component of the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs, and many other body components.

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Cetacea

Cetacea are a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

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Chubut Province

Chubut (Talaith Chubut; Provincia del Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range to the west, and the Atlantic ocean to the east.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino (September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers –Carlos and Juan– Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology. From 1887 until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino (1865–1936) who, between 1887 and 1902, made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and collected numerous fossil faunas and made important stratigraphic observations which helped to support his journal Ameghiniana.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Largest prehistoric animals

The largest prehistoric organisms include both vertebrate and invertebrate species.

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List of apex predators

This is a partial list of apex predators—those predators that are not preyed upon as healthy adults in the wild.

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Lists of prehistoric fish

Prehistoric fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records.

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Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history.

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Megalodon

Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon), meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 2.6 million years ago (mya), during the Early Miocene to the end of the Pliocene.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Myr

The abbreviation myr, "million years", is a unit of a quantity of (i.e.) years, or 31.6 teraseconds.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Otodus

Otodus is an extinct genus of mackerel shark which lived from the Paleocene to the Miocene epoch, The name Otodus comes from Greek ὠτ (oûs "ear") and ὀδούς, "odous (tooth)", or "ear-shaped tooth".

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Sea turtle

Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines.

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Shark tooth

A shark tooth is one of the numerous teeth of a shark.

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Sirenia

The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.

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Skeleton

The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Vertebra

In the vertebrate spinal column, each vertebra is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, the proportions of which vary according to the segment of the backbone and the species of vertebrate.

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcharocles_chubutensis

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