Carcharodon

Carcharodon Temporal range: Pal. Eocene Oligo. Miocene P P Oligocene to present
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Fossil of the teeth of Carcharodon hastalis from Naturalis museum, Leiden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Division:	Selachii
Order:	Lamniformes
Family:	Lamnidae
Genus:	Carcharodon A. Smith, 1838
Type species
Squalus carcharias Linnaeus, 1758
Species
C. carcharias Linnaeus, 1758 †C. hubbelli Ehret et al., 2012 †C. hastalis Agassiz, 1843 †C. planus? Agassiz, 1856 †C. subserratus (escheri)? Agassiz, 1843 †C. plicatilis (xiphodon)? Agassiz, 1843 †C. caifassii Lawley, 1876
Synonyms
Procarcharodon Casier, 1960 Cosmopolitodus? Glikman, 1964

Carcharodon (from Ancient Greek κάρχαρος (kárkharos), meaning "sharp, jagged", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", and thus, "sharp tooth/jagged tooth") is a genus of sharks within the family Lamnidae, colloquially called the "white sharks". The only extant member is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Extinct species include C. hubbelli and C. hastalis. The first appearance of the genus in the fossil record may have been as early as the Late Oligocene, but certainly by the Early Miocene.