Named By: | Louis Agassiz in 1843 |
Time Period: | Oligocene - Miocene |
Location: | Worldwide |
Size: | Estimated at up to 9.3 meters long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Usually just the teeth, but occasionally vertebra as well |
Classification: | | Chordata | Chondrichthyes | Elasmobranchii | Lamniformes | |
Carcharocles angustidens is a prehistoric megatoothed shark, which lived during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs about 33 to 22 million years ago. This shark is related to another extinct megatoothed shark, Carcharocles megalodon.