Carcharodon sokolowi

Richard Hulbert (Ed.) in his THE FOSSIL VERTEBRATES OF FLORIDA (2001) sums up the situation with megatooth sharks as well as anyone. He points to research that says that the Florida holotype specimen labeled as Carcharodon auriculatus is actually another species, Carcharodon subauriculatus.

Depending on which authors you find most credible, C. subauriculatus is synonymous with C. angustidens or C. sokolowi. Hulbert favors Carcharodon sokolowi, following Case and Cappetta (1990). I am changing my specimen labels, though I think all these Carcharodon species (except for C. carcharias) belong in the genus Carcharocles, Family Otodontidae.

If you accept the Hulbert-Case-Cappetta species name for Florida megatooth sharks, Carcharodon sokolowi, I believe that it is acceptably pronounced SO-KO-LAW-VAYE, recognizing someone named Sokolow or Sokolov.

[Notice the deformity, a true pathology, at the tip of the center tooth.]