Erikodus
| Erikodus Temporal range: Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontida |
| Family: | †Caseodontidae |
| Genus: | †Erikodus Nielsen, 1952 |
| Species: | †E. groenlandicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Erikodus groenlandicus Nielsen, 1932
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Erikodus is an extinct genus of caseodontid eugeneodont from the Late Permian of Greenland. A single species, E. groenlandicus, is known, which was originally classified as a species of Agassizodus.[1][2] The genus had a row of rounded, overlapping teeth along the midline (or symphysis) of both the upper and lower jaw, as well as rows of flat, plate-like, rectangular crushing teeth elsewhere in the mouth. The anatomy of the crushing teeth (termed "pavement teeth") is similar to that of the related genera Agassizodus and Caseodus, although the arrangement and shape of the midline teeth is unique in E. groenlandicus.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Erikodus". Mindat.org. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ a b Ginter, Michał; Hampe, Oliver; Duffin, Christopher J. (2010). Handbook of paleoichthyology: teeth. München: F. Pfeil. p. 121. ISBN 978-3-89937-116-1.
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