Carcharhinus similis (Probst, 1978)

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 35

Carcharhinus similis (Probst, 1978)

Tooth type: Cutting-clutching.

The teeth of C. similis display closer morphological affinities with those of the extant species C. leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) and C. amboinensis (Müller and Henle, 1839) , both of which inhabit the neritic realm, from the surface to a depth of 150 m (Reinecke et al., 2011; Voigt and Weber, 2011). The diet of both these species is composed of bony and cartilaginous fishes, and both have a TL of 4.3 (Cortés 1999). Some authors (Cliff and Dudley, 1991a, 1991b; Tillett et al., 2014; Estupiñán-Montaño et al., 2017) provided further detail on the food items of these two species, which appear to include: Aetobatus spp. , Dasyatis spp. , Carcharhinus spp. , Carcharias spp. , Isurus oxyrhynchus , Mobula spp. , Rhynchobatus spp. , Rhizoprionodon spp. , Sphyrna spp. , Squatina spp. and Squalidae for C. leucas ; and Carcharhinidae , Dasyatidae , Gymnuridae , Myliobatidae , Rhinobatidae , Scyliorhinidae , Sphyrnidae and Squatinidae for C. amboinensis .