''Carcharodon hubbelli'', also known as Hubbell's white shark, is an extinct

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

of white shark that evolved between 8 and 5 million years ago during the Late

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" ...

to Early

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58great white shark The great white shark (''Carcharodon carcharias''), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large Lamniformes, mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major ocean ...

s and smaller, prehistoric mako sharks. Its fossils have been unearthed in New Zealand and Peru. This shark was named in honour of Gordon Hubbell (the scientist who recovered the specimen from a farmer who found it in 1988) in recognition of his contribution to shark palaeontology and for donating the specimen to the Florida Museum of Natural History in 2009. Evolution of the great white shark

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Carcharodon Prehistoric Lamniformes Miocene sharks Prehistoric fish of South America Miocene animals of South America Huayquerian Montehermosan Neogene Peru Fossils of Peru Fossil taxa described in 2012 {{Paleo-shark-stub