Carcharodon hastalis (Agassiz, 1843)

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 : 33

Carcharodon hastalis (Agassiz, 1843)

Tooth type: Tearing with tendency towards the cutting type.

According to Collareta et al. (2017b), adults of the extinct species C. hastalis were in large part piscivorous; they lived in tropical to temperate seas worldwide, probably on the inner shelf (Cappetta, 1987; Bor et al., 2012). The recent white shark C. carcharias feeds on bony and cartilaginous fishes as well as on marine mammals (Cortés,1999; Ebert, 2003), having a TL of 4.5 (Cortés, 1999). If C. hastalis also fed on marine mammals can not be said with certainty.