Carcharias megalodon

Agassiz, 1835


Classification: Elasmobranchii Lamniformes Carchariidae

Reference of the original description
Agassiz, L. (1835)
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 5th livraison (June 1835). Petitpierre et Prince (text) and H. Nicolet (plates), Neuchâtel, vol. 3: pl. D, 46

Types
Carcharias megalodon



Description:


Citation: Carcharias megalodon Agassiz, 1835: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2024

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Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=13673;
synonym of Carcharodon megalodon after Woodward (1889) p. 415 [2593]; Joleaud (1907) p. 147 [1227];

Links: Original description of Agassiz Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles (1833-1843)

References
Owen, R. (1853)
Descriptive catalogue of the osteological series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Vol. 1. Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Marsupialia. Taylor and Francis, London, 350 pp
Ehrlich, K. (1850)
Ueber die nordöstlichen Alpen. Ein Beitrag zur näheren Kenntniss des Gebietes von Oesterreich ob der Enns und Salzburg in geognostisch-mineralogisch-montanistischer Beziehung. In Bericht über das Museum Franciso-Caroiinum, 11: 46 + 94 S. - Linz.
Egerton, P. (1837)
A systematic and stratigraphical cataloge of the fossil fish in the cabinets of Lord Cole and Sir Philip Grey Egerton: together with an alphabetical and stratigraphical catalogue of the same species with references to their published figures and descriptions. London, 1837
DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.23781
Charlesworth, E. (1837)
Notice of the teeth of Carcharias megalodon occurring in the Red Crag of Suffolk. Magazine of Natural History, n.s. 1(2), 225–227
Agassiz, L. (1835)
Explication des planches de la cinquième livraison. Neuchatel, Imprimerie de Petitpierre et Prince,1835
Agassiz, L. (1835)
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 5th livraison (June 1835). Petitpierre et Prince (text) and H. Nicolet (plates), Neuchâtel, vol. 3: pl. D, 46
Agassiz, L. (1834)
Verzeichniss der in der Peträfakten-Sammlung des vaterländischen Museums befindlichen versteinerten Fische, nach Prof. Agassiz Bestimmung. Verhandlungen Gesellschaft für Vaterlandische Musuem Böhmen, 12: 66-71