Antliodus

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Antliodus
Temporal range: Mississippian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Petalodontiformes
Family: Petalodontidae
Genus: Antliodus
Newberry & Worthen, 1866
Species
  • A. cucullus
  • A. minutus
  • A. parvulus
  • A. politus
  • A. sarculus
  • A. similis
  • A. simplex
  • A. sulcatus
  • A. truncatus
  • A. robustus
  • A. gracilis
  • A. arctuatus

Antliodus is an extinct genus of petalodont from the Carboniferous Period. It is known from the Mississippian of the United States, Britain, and Belgium [1] [2] Though many species have been reported in the past, a lack of recent revisions means some may be dubious. [3]

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Antliodus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. Duffin, Christopher J.; Ward, David J. (October 2017). "A new janassid petalodont chondrichthyan from the Early Carboniferous of Derbyshire, UK" . Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 128 (5–6): 809–814. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.06.008. ISSN   0016-7878.
  3. Hoenig, M. M. J. (2019). Chondrichthyan Diversity within the Burlington-Keokuk Fish Bed of Southeast Iowa and Northwest Illinois (Mississippian: Osagean) (Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University).