swap_horiz Xenacanthus Alternatives

1

Bull shark

The bull shark is a large, stout-bodied requiem shark belonging to the family Carcharhinidae. It is distinguished by its...

Coastal Freshwater Requiem Extant

9.2 Excellent

2

Helicoprion

Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like cartilaginous fish that lived during the Permian period, first named in 18...

Marine Extinct Permian Tooth Whorl

9.2 Excellent

3

Cretoxyrhina mantelli

Cretoxyrhina mantelli, commonly known as the Ginsu shark, was a large mackerel shark that lived during the Late Cretaceo...

Large Apex Extinct Cretaceous

8.5 Great

4

Ptychodus

"Ptychodus" is an extinct genus of large durophagous shark that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. Historically kn...

Marine Giant Extinct Cretaceous

8.4 Great

5

Cladoselache

Cladoselache is an extinct genus of shark-like cartilaginous fish from the Late Devonian, known especially from well-pre...

Marine Devonian Extinct Paleozoic

8.2 Great

6

Aquilolamna milarcae

Aquilolamna milarcae is an extinct Cretaceous elasmobranch known from a fossil discovered in northeastern Mexico and for...

Marine Winged Extinct Cretaceous

8.2 Great

7

Stethacanthus

Stethacanthus is an extinct genus of shark-like cartilaginous fish that lived during the Late Devonian and Carboniferous...

Marine Extinct Carboniferous Paleozoic

8.1 Great

8

Edestus

Edestus is an extinct genus of eugeneodontid holocephalan fish that lived during the Late Carboniferous period, with fos...

Marine Extinct Carboniferous Eugeneodont

8.1 Great

9

Carcharodon hastalis

Carcharodon hastalis is an extinct species of mackerel shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, first na...

Apex Extinct Miocene Lamnidae

8.1 Great

10

Otodus chubutensis

Otodus chubutensis is an extinct species of megatooth shark that existed during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. It was...

Giant Apex Extinct Miocene

8.0 Great

11

Squalicorax

Squalicorax, commonly referred to as the crow shark, is an extinct genus of marine shark that lived during the Cretaceou...

Marine Scavenger Extinct Cretaceous

8.0 Great

12

Otodus obliquus

Otodus obliquus is an extinct species of large shark from the family Otodontidae that lived during the Paleocene and Eoc...

Apex Extinct Paleogene Mackerel

7.9 Good

13

Cosmopolitodus hastalis

"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" is a scientific classification for an extinct species of mackerel shark that lived from the Ol...

Apex Extinct Miocene Lamnidae

7.9 Good

14

Hybodus

Hybodus is an extinct genus of hybodont shark that lived from the Late Permian to the Late Cretaceous periods. Character...

Marine Extinct Mesozoic Hybodont

7.7 Good

15

Phoebodus

Phoebodus is an extinct genus of shark that lived during the Devonian period, approximately 419 to 359 million years ago...

Marine Devonian Extinct Paleozoic

7.6 Good

16

Orthacanthus

Orthacanthus is an extinct genus of xenacanthid shark that inhabited freshwater swamps and bayous during the Carbonifero...

Freshwater Extinct Paleozoic Spined

7.4 Good

17

Falcatus

Falcatus is an extinct genus of small holocephalan or shark-like fish that lived during the Carboniferous period, with f...

Small Extinct Carboniferous Spined

7.4 Good

18

Doliodus problematicus

Doliodus problematicus is an extinct species of cartilaginous fish that lived during the Early Devonian period, with fos...

Marine Devonian Extinct Spined

7.3 Good

19

Bandringa

Bandringa is an extinct genus of shark that lived approximately 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, f...

Freshwater Devonian Juvenile Extinct

7.2 Good

20

Ctenacanthus

Ctenacanthus is a Paleozoic ctenacanthiform shark genus named by Louis Agassiz in 1837, noted for comb-like dorsal fin s...

Marine Extinct Paleozoic Spined

7.1 Good