| Acanthodes Temporal range: Early Carboniferous to Early Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Acanthodii |
| Order: | †Acanthodiformes |
| Family: | †Acanthodidae |
| Genus: | †Acanthodes Agassiz, 1833[1] |
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| Acanthodes bronni Agassiz, 1833
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Acanthodes (from Greek: ἄκανθώδης akanthódis, 'provided with spines')[2] is an extinct genus of acanthodian fish. Species have been found in Europe, North America, and Asia, spanning the Early Carboniferous to the Early Permian, making it one of the youngest known acanthodian genera.[3]
- ^ Woodward, Arthur Smith (1889). Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) . London, Printed by order of the Trustees. p. 2.
- ^ Dean, Bashford (1895). Fishes, living and fossil. An outline of their forms and probable relationships. New York, London, Macmillan and Co. p. 227.
- ^ Beznosov, Pavel (May 2009). "A redescription of the Early Carboniferous acanthodian Acanthodes lopatini Rohon, 1889". Acta Zoologica. 90: 183–193. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00352.x.