Gilliodus
| Gilliodus Temporal range: Carboniferous
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontiformes |
| Family: | †Eugeneodontidae |
| Genus: | †Gilliodus Zangerl, 1981 |
| Type species | |
| * †Gilliodus orvellei Zangerl, 1981
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Gilliodus is an extinct genus of eugeneodontid cartilaginous fish from the Carboniferous of North America. Two species, G. orvellei and G. peyeri, are known.[1][2] The postcranial skeleton of the genus is identical in appearance to the distantly related caseodontid Caseodus, but it can be distinguished from Caseodus by the blade-like anatomy of its teeth and the anatomy of its skull. An isolated tooth from the Late Devonian of Poland has been suggested to belong to an unnamed species of Gilliodus, but later authors have concluded that this tooth more likely belonged to a different order of fishes.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gilliodus". Mindat.org. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". Paleobiology Database.
- ^ Ginter, Michał; Hampe, Oliver; Duffin, Christopher J. (2010). Handbook of paleoichthyology: teeth. München: F. Pfeil. pp. 122–123. ISBN 978-3-89937-116-1.
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