Cladodoides Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
Family: | †Ctenacanthidae |
Genus: | †Cladodoides Maisey, 2001 |
Species: | †C. wildungensis
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Binomial name | |
†Cladodoides wildungensis (Jaekel, 1921)
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Cladodoides is a genus of extinct shark. It appeared in the Frasnian age of the late Devonian and possibly existed in the Tournaisian age of the early Carboniferous.
It has a well-described braincase and brain cavity, and has greatly informed our understanding of the skull, brain, nerves, and jaws of early sharks. Cladodoides is likely a cladodont shark. Remains have been found in Germany.
Six pentacuspid teeth, possibly belonging to Cladodoides wildungensis, have been found in the Tournaisian Laurel Formation, Australia.[1]