Alopias grandis
| Alopias grandis Temporal range:
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| Fossilized tooth | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | Alopiidae |
| Genus: | Alopias |
| Species: | A. grandis
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| Binomial name | |
| Alopias grandis Leriche, 1942
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| Synonyms | |
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Alopecias grandis | |
Alopias grandis is a species of giant thresher shark from the Miocene. Estimates calculated from teeth comparisons suggest the living animal was comparable in size to the extant great white shark. More recent studies replaced A. grandis into genus Trigonotodus.