Isurus xiphodon
(Agassiz, 1838)
Classification: Elasmobranchii Lamniformes Lamnidae
	Reference of the original description
	
	
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 11th livraison (November 1838). Petitpierre et Prince (text) and H. Nicolet (plates), Neuchâtel, vol. 3: [73]-140, pl. 1a, 8a, 8b, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 25b, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40.
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 11th livraison (November 1838). Petitpierre et Prince (text) and H. Nicolet (plates), Neuchâtel, vol. 3: [73]-140, pl. 1a, 8a, 8b, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 25b, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40.
	Types
Isurus xiphodon
	
	
	
Isurus xiphodon
Description:
Citation: Isurus xiphodon (Agassiz, 1838): In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 11/2025
		Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=3325;
Links: Original description of Agassiz Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles (1833-1843)
		shark-references Species-ID=3325;
Links: Original description of Agassiz Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles (1833-1843)
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Bone reactions on a pliocene cetacean rib indicate short-term survival of predation event. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 22(3), 253–260
DOI: 10.1002/oa.1199
	
	
		
		
			
Marine vertebrate assemblages in the southwest Atlantic during the Miocene. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103, 423–440
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01685.x
	
	
		
		
			
A high resolution stratigraphic framework for the remarkable fossil cetacean assemblage of the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 31(4), 414–425
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2011.02.015
	
	
		
		
			
A Morphometric Approach for Addressing Tooth-Based Species Delimitation in Fossil Mako Sharks, Isurus (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30(1), 17–25
DOI: 10.1080/02724630903409055
	
	
		
		
			
Systematic, paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic analysis of the Plio-Pleistocene Mediteranean elasmobranch fauna. Atti Societa Toscana Scienze Naturali, Serie A, 113: 81–88
	
	
		
		
			
Shark tooth marks on Miocene balaenopterid cetacean bones from Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 245(2), 185–192
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0245-0185
	
	
		
		
			
Pliocene elasmobranchs in the collection of the Museo Civico Giuseppe Scarabelli of Imola (Pisces Chondrichthyes Neoselachii). Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna 24: 19–36
	
	
		
		
			
Analisi Sistematica, Paleoecologica e Paleobiogeografica della Selaciofauna plio-pleistocenica del Mediterraneo. UNIVERSITÀ DI PISA, Doktorarbeit
	
	
		
		
			
Giant-toothed White Sharks and Wide-toothed Mako (Lamnidae) from the Venezuela Neogene Their Role in the Caribbean, Shallow-water Fish Assemblage. Caribbean Journal of Science, 40(3), 368–382
	
	
	

Bone reactions on a pliocene cetacean rib indicate short-term survival of predation event. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 22(3), 253–260
DOI: 10.1002/oa.1199

Marine vertebrate assemblages in the southwest Atlantic during the Miocene. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103, 423–440
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01685.x

A high resolution stratigraphic framework for the remarkable fossil cetacean assemblage of the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 31(4), 414–425
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2011.02.015

A Morphometric Approach for Addressing Tooth-Based Species Delimitation in Fossil Mako Sharks, Isurus (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30(1), 17–25
DOI: 10.1080/02724630903409055
Systematic, paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic analysis of the Plio-Pleistocene Mediteranean elasmobranch fauna. Atti Societa Toscana Scienze Naturali, Serie A, 113: 81–88

Shark tooth marks on Miocene balaenopterid cetacean bones from Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 245(2), 185–192
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0245-0185
Pliocene elasmobranchs in the collection of the Museo Civico Giuseppe Scarabelli of Imola (Pisces Chondrichthyes Neoselachii). Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna 24: 19–36
Analisi Sistematica, Paleoecologica e Paleobiogeografica della Selaciofauna plio-pleistocenica del Mediterraneo. UNIVERSITÀ DI PISA, Doktorarbeit
Giant-toothed White Sharks and Wide-toothed Mako (Lamnidae) from the Venezuela Neogene Their Role in the Caribbean, Shallow-water Fish Assemblage. Caribbean Journal of Science, 40(3), 368–382
				
				
    					
    					
    					
    					
                        
    					








