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Cretodus is an extinct genus of mackerel sharks belonging to the proposed family Pseudoscapanorhynchidae. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 100 to 89 million years ago. The genus is best known from formations formed in the Western Interior Seaway, but is also known from the late Cretaceous of Europe, Africa, and possibly Asia. It is mainly known from isolated teeth and vertebral centra, though a few associated dentitions and spines have been found. A virtually complete skeleton of the species C. crassidens was described in 2022, revealing it could reach large sizes.

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  • Cretodus is an extinct genus of mackerel sharks belonging to the proposed family Pseudoscapanorhynchidae. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 100 to 89 million years ago. The genus is best known from formations formed in the Western Interior Seaway, but is also known from the late Cretaceous of Europe, Africa, and possibly Asia. It is mainly known from isolated teeth and vertebral centra, though a few associated dentitions and spines have been found. A virtually complete skeleton of the species C. crassidens was described in 2022, revealing it could reach large sizes. (en)
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  • Sokolov, 1965 (en)
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  • Cretodus crassidens tooth from the Atco Formation of Texas (en)
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  • *C. gigantea (Case, 2001) *C. houghtonorum Shimada & Everhart, 2019 *C. longiplicatus Werner, 1989 *C. semiplicatus (en)
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  • Other species (en)
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  • Cretodus (en)
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  • Oxyrhina crassidens (en)
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  • Dixon, 1850 (en)
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  • Cretodus is an extinct genus of mackerel sharks belonging to the proposed family Pseudoscapanorhynchidae. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 100 to 89 million years ago. The genus is best known from formations formed in the Western Interior Seaway, but is also known from the late Cretaceous of Europe, Africa, and possibly Asia. It is mainly known from isolated teeth and vertebral centra, though a few associated dentitions and spines have been found. A virtually complete skeleton of the species C. crassidens was described in 2022, revealing it could reach large sizes. (en)
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  • Cretodus (en)
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