LAMNID^. 
415 
P. 2385. Two teeth ; Crag, Antwerp. EtinitskiUen Coll. 
P. 337 a. Two im])erfect small teeth, perhaps of this sijecies, from 
the Arabian Desert. 
Presented hy Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., 1881. 
Carcharodon megalodon, Agassiz. 
1752. Figures by A. Scilla, De Corporibus Marinis, pi. iiL fig. 1, pi. v. 
fig. 2, pi. vi. fig. 1. 
1818. Carcharias verus, II. D. de Blainville, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. 
Tol. xxvii. p. 384'. 
1837. Carcharias m°galodon, E. Charlesworth, Mag. Nat. Hist. n. s. 
vol. i. p. 223, woodc. fig. 24. 
1843. Carcharodon megalodon, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iii. p. 247, 
pi. xxix. 
1843. Carcharodon rectidens, L. Agassiz, tom. cit. p. 250, pi. xxx. a. 
%• fo. 
1843. Carcharodon subauriculatus, L. Agassiz, totn. cit. p. 2.51, pi. xxx. a. 
tigs. 11-1.3. 
1843. Carcharodon prodtictus, L. Agassiz, to/n. cit. p. 251, pi. xxx. 
figs. 2, 4, 0, 7, 8. 
184.3. Carcharodon poly gyrus, L. Agassiz, tom. at. p. 25.3, pi. xxx. 
figs. 0-12. 
1844. Carcharodon megalodon, P. M. Pddroni, Actes Soc. Linn. Bor- 
deaux, vol. xiii. p. 280, pi. i. fig. 20. 
1848. Carcharodon megalodon, K. W. Gibbes, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Philad. [2] vol. i. p. 14.3, pi. xviii., pi. xix. figs. 8, 9. 
1840. Carcharodon megalodon, E. Sismouda, Mem. B. Accad. Sci. 
Torino, [2] vol. x. p. 34, pi. i, figs. 8-13. 
1840. Carcharodon crassidms, E. Sismonda, tom. cit. p. 35, pL i. 
figs. 32, . 3 : 1 . 
1840. Cardmrodon polygyrus, E. Sismonda, tom. cit. p. 30. 
1849. Carcharodon productus, E. Sismonda, tom. cit. p. .37, pi. i. 
figs. 25-20. 
1830. Carcharodon megalodon, O. G. Costa, Paleont. Kegno Napoli, 
pt. i. p. 117, pi. ix. fig. 2. 
1 852. Carcharodon megalodon, P. Gervais, Zcol. et Pal. Frany. pi. Ixxiv. 
figs. 11, 12, pi. Ixxv. fig. 10. 
1854. Carcharodon megalodon, R. Owen, Cat. Foss. Kept. & Pisces Mus. 
R. Coll. Surgeons, p. 124. 
1804-.50. Carcharodon megalodon, O. G. Costa, Paleont. Regno Napoli, 
pt. il. p. 40, pi. V. figs. 2, 3, pi. H. fig. 1. 
' This specific name refers to the existing Carcharias lamia, to which 
Blainville assigned the fossil teeth. 
