Carcharoides catticus (Philippi, 1846)

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 : 32

Carcharoides catticus (Philippi, 1846)

Tooth type: Tearing.

The genus is extinct. Teeth of C. catticus are found in neritic sediments and have an odontaspidid morphology, being also similar to those of extant Triaenodon obsesus (Rüppel, 1837) (family Carcharhinidae ). Because of this similarity, Purdy et al. (2001) placed Carcharoides in synonymy with T. obsesus , but Ward and Bonavia (2001) later showed that they are different taxa. In spite of the similar tooth shape suggests that C. catticus had a similar diet to T. obsesus , which consists of bony fish and squids (Cortés, 1999; Ebert et al., 2021).