Carcharodon hubbelli

Carcharodon hubbelli, also known as Hubbell's white shark, is an extinct species of white shark that evolved between 8 to 5 million years ago during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene epochs. The shark is a transitional species, showing intermediate features between present-day great white sharks and smaller, prehistoric mako sharks.[2][3][4] Its fossils have been unearthed in Peru.[5]

Carcharodon hubbelli
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Huayquerian-Montehermosan)
~8–5 Ma
↓
[1]
Holotype jaws and teeth (UF 226255), also known as the Sacaco specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Lamnidae
Genus: Carcharodon
Species:
†C. hubbelli
Binomial name
†Carcharodon hubbelli
Ehret et al., 2012


This shark was named in honour of Gordon Hubbell (the scientist who recovered the specimen from a farmer who found it in 1988)[6] in recognition of his contribution to shark palaeontology and for donating the specimen to the Florida Museum of Natural History in 2009.[7][3][8]

Transition of C. hubbelli

References
  1. Boessenecker, R. W.; Ehret, D. J.; Long, D. J.; Churchill, M.; Martin, E.; Boessenecker, S. J. (2019). "The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific". PeerJ: e6088. doi:10.7717/peerj.6088.
  2. Nick Crumpton (14 November 2012). "Great whites not evolved from megashark'". BBC. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  3. Dana J. Ehret; Bruce J. Macfadden; Douglas S. Jones; Thomas J. Devries; David A. Foster; Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi (2012). "Origin of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru". Palaeontology. 55 (6): 1139–1153. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01201.x.
  4. Ehret, Dana J.; Hubbell, Gordon; Macfadden, Bruce J. (2009). "Exceptional preservation of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the early Pliocene of Peru". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1671/039.029.0113. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  5. Torrent, Danielle. "New ancient shark species gives insight into origin of great white". Florida Museum of Natural History. University of Florida. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  6. "New ancient shark species gives insight into origin of great white". University of Florida News. 2012-11-14. Archived from the original on 2013-03-07. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
  7. de Lazaro, Enrico. "Study: White Shark May Have Evolved from Mako Shark". Sci-News.com. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  8. Torrent, Danielle. "New ancient shark species gives insight into origin of great white". Florida Museum of Natural History. University of Florida. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.