VulnerableGreat White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
Cartilaginous fish · Lamniformes · Otodontidae
Otodus megalodon
No living individual remains anywhere in the world.
The megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived between roughly 19.8 and 3.6 million years ago, during the Cenozoic. It was formerly thought to be a member of the family Lamnidae and a close relative of the great white shark. Today, however, there is almost unanimous consensus that it belongs to the genus Otodus, of the extinct family Otodontidae, which separated from the ancestry of the great white shark during the Early Cretaceous, and that it should therefore be called Otodus megalodon.
Weight
30 t – 60 t
Size
10 m – 18 m
Life expectancy
90 years
Diet
Carnivore
Feeds mainly on other animals.
Activity
Diurnal
Active mainly during the day.
Social structure
Solitary
Lives and hunts alone, joining others only to breed.
Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Otodus megalodon
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with Megalodon — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
Based on what we already know about megalodon.
