{{Short description|Extinct family of sharks}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Cretaceous}} | taxon = Cardabiodontidae | authority = Siverson, 1999 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = *{{extinct}}''Cardabiodon'' *{{extinct}}''Dwardius'' *{{extinct}}''Parotodus?'' }} {{Portal|Sharks}} '''Cardabiodontidae''' is an extinct family of lamniform sharks. Confirmed members of this family include ''Cardabiodon'' and ''Dwardius'', both which are genera which existed in Australia, North America, and Europe during the Late Cretaceous period.<ref name="JoVP">{{cite journal |author=Todd D. Cook, Mark V. H. Wilson & Michael G. Newbrey |year=2010 |title=The first record of the large Cretaceous lamniform shark, ''Cardabiodon ricki'', from North America and a new empirical test for its presumed antitropical distribution |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=643–649 |doi=10.1080/02724631003758052|bibcode=2010JVPal..30..643C |s2cid=128489655 }}</ref><ref name=SiversonandMachalski>{{cite journal|author1=Mikael Siverson|author2=Marcin Machalski|title=Late late Albian (Early Cretaceous) shark teeth from Annopol, Poland|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology|volume=41|issue=4|year=2017|pages=433–463|doi=10.1080/03115518.2017.1282981|bibcode=2017Alch...41..433S |s2cid=133123002 }}</ref> It has been suggested that ''Parotodus'' could also belong to this family, but the authors that originally made this proposal expressed a weakening of rationale for it.<ref name= SiversonandLindgren>{{Cite journal|author1=Mikael Siverson|author2=Johan Lindgren|title=Late Cretaceous sharks ''Cretoxyrhina'' and ''Cardabiodon'' from Montana, USA|url=https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app50/app50-301.pdf|year=2005|volume=50|issue=2|pages=301–314|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica}}</ref>

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Category:Prehistoric Lamniformes Category:Cretaceous sharks Category:Lamniformes Category:Shark families Category:Prehistoric cartilaginous fish families

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