“…from the Tortonian of Baja California, Mexico and Cetorhinus sp. occurs in the late Miocene-early Pliocene of Holland (Wijnker et al, 2008), and the late Miocene (Stewart, 1997;Barnes, 2008) and Pliocene (Applegate, 1978) of Baja California, Mexico. Almost all late Miocene through Pleistocene basking sharks are included in C. maximus, with occurrences in Belgium (Herman et al, 1974;Herman, 1979;Nolf, 1986;Van Der Brugghen, 2005), Italy (Lawley, 1876;Landini, 1977;Marsili, 2008;Cigala-Fulgosi et al, 2009), France (Cappetta and Nolf, 1991), Japan (Uyeno and Matsushima, 1974), the Czech Republic (Schultz et al, 2010), Chile (Long, 1993), California (Kanakoff, 1956;Fitch, 1970;Langenwalter, 1975;Long, 1994;Boessenecker, 2011), Oregon (Long, 1994;Welton, unpublished data), and Baja California, Mexico (Long, 1994).…”