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Kevin Kelly posted a new specimen. 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoKevin Kelly has contributed specimen mFeM 63786 to myFOSSIL!
Kevin Kelly posted a new specimen. 4 years, 3 months ago
Kevin Kelly has contributed specimen mFeM 63786 to myFOSSIL!
Hi @Kevin-Kelly! Great specimen. @VPerez or @Bill-Heim should be able to help you with specimen identification.
Carcharodon planus
As for Carcharodon vs. Cosmopolitodus here is a reference tying C. hastalis to Carcharodon https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01201.x See: page 1140. As for planus, I haven’t found an article invaliding Isurus planus yet but I’ll keep looking. The issue is that it is clearly not Isurus as the anterior teeth are nothing like Isurus
Hi @Kevin-Kelly. It appears this specimen is missing geochronology data and that the genus and specific epithet are mismatched.
See that too, fixed.
Also the taxon wizard doesn’t contain Carcharodon planus, I can only select to the level of Carcharodon, then forced to type planus in the species field manually. Is there a way to add Carcharodon planus to the taxon wizard?
Hi, @Kevin-Kelly! I don’t think we can manually edit the taxon wizard because I believe it is sourced from the PBDB.
Hi @Samantha-Ocon @bill-heim @vperez– I contacted PBDB and they said in order to use Carcharodon planus as the current name, they’d need to link the name in the database to a published reference with that opinion. They said from a quick search it appeared that the taxonomy of Isurus/Carcharodon/Cosmopolitodus is unsettled, but if you can send me a reference that uses Carcharodon planus as the taxonomic name, we can easily add it to PBDB.
Anybody know where to find a published reference with that opinion?
Sharks are not my wheelhouse, so I’m gonna page @Bill-Heim and @VPerez again.