Carcharomodus
| Carcharomodus Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Holotype of Carcharomodus escheri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | Lamnidae |
| Genus: | †Carcharomodus Kriwet, 2014 |
| Species: | †C. escheri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Carcharomodus escheri (Agassiz, 1843) | |
Carcharomodus is an extinct genus of lamnid shark. Its only species is Carcharomodus escheri, commonly nicknamed the serrated mako shark or Escher's mako shark. It is an extinct lamnid that lived during the Miocene and that was formerly thought to have been transitional between the broad-toothed "mako" Cosmopolitodus hastalis and the modern great white, but is now considered to be an evolutionary dead-end with the discovery of Carcharodon hubbelli. Fossil examples have been found along northern Atlantic coastlines and in parts of Western and Central Europe.