Crocodile shark in a 1936 issue of "Zoological Magazine (Tokyo)" by ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara, based on a long specimen found at the Koti Fish Market in Japan. The type specimen is a long adult male found at a fish market in Su-ao, Taiwan. After being shuffled between the genera "Carcharias" and "Odontaspis" in the family Odontaspididae by various authors, in 1973 Leonard Compagno resurrected Jean Cadenat's 1963 subgenus "Pseudocarcharias" from synonymy for this species and placed it within its own family. The morphology of the crocodile shark suggests affinity with the megamouth shark (Megachasmidae), basking shark (Cetorhinidae), thresher sharks (Alopiidae), and mackerel
Fish cosmetic palette for forward, and rear pectoral fins. Two forward arced lines form gill slits, and a yellowish eye is made with inlay. The Louvre dolphin type fish palette is a Naqada I, or II palette. It has simple fish fin grooves on its tail, and its dorsal fin, towards the rear. The palette has an inlaid white eye, (often of shell). Because of its extended length, it contains three suspension holes. The fish palette at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, is more ornate than common fish palettes. It is a Bulti-fish type, and notable for a large cosmetic "mixing circle" adorning the