Cladodoides

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Cladodoides
Temporal range: Late Devonian
File:Cladodoides wildungensis .jpg
Fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Ctenacanthiformes
Family: Ctenacanthidae
Genus: Cladodoides
Maisey, 2001
Species:
C. wildungensis
Binomial name
Cladodoides wildungensis
(Jaekel, 1921)

Cladodoides is a genus of extinct cartilaginous fish. 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]

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