GIANT MAKO SHARK (EXTINCT)
The Giant Mako Shark (Isurus hastalis) is an extinct lamnid that was prevalent during the Eocene to the Pleistocene. There is substantial recent research that has reclassified it as Carcharodon hastalis of the white shark lineage, but this is still under debate. The lamnidae comprise the family of mackerel sharks of which mako sharks are members of. The Giant Mako Shark was a large predatory open ocean shark. The size of this shark was about 3.5 meters to 6.0 meters, about the size of today`s modern Great White Shark. These size estimates were arrived at by measuring extinct tooth sizes and extinct vertebrae. The Giant Mako Shark is known to have existed in all oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea.
