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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Lamnidae —mackerel shark .
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Examples
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It indicates the non-frenzied feeding of a large squalus - possibly Longimanus or Isurus glauca.
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Cosmopolitodus hastalis and its still-living relative Isurus oxyrinchus
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Isurus (mako sharks) in addition to the famous superpredator Carcharocles megalodon, most of which came from the time interval between 19 and 14 million years ago.
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The authors demonstrate that the fossil white shark shows morphological characters that are present in both great white shark and Isurus hastalis, a fossil Broadtooth mako shark that lived in the same area 9-10 million years ago.
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(Isurus) instead (with the Megatooth shark in a separate family, the Otodontidae); the prevailing opinion is for the former view.
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He believes the fossil belongs to a white shark species closely related to Isurus hastalis, a broad-toothed mako shark that probably grew to 27 feet long and lived 9 million to 10 million years ago.
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"Ehret and his colleagues 'work demonstrates a strong evolutionary link between the extinct mako (Isurus hastalis) and the modern great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and has concomitantly weakened the classic hypothesis that the modern great white shark evolved from the extinct megatooth shark," shark expert Kenshu Shimada told Discovery News.
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Isurus spp., and three species of Threshers, Alopias spp
ENS 2009
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Cosmopolitodus hastalis or Isurus oxyrinchus, neither of which is the great white (
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