Cretacladoides

Cretacladoides
Temporal range: Valanginian
Holotype tooth of Cretacladoides noricum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Genus: Cretacladoides
Feichtinger et al. 2018
Type species
Cretacladoides ogiveformis
Feichtinger et al., 2018
Species
  • C. ogiveformis (Feichtinger et al., 2018)
  • C. noricum (Feichtinger et al., 2018)

Cretacladoides ("cladodont likeness from the Cretaceous") is a genus of chondrichthyan, possibly a falcatid, found in France and Austria. Known solely from teeth, mainly found in the Klausrieglerbach locality of Austria, it consists of two species, C. ogiveformis and C. noricum. Assuming a falcatid identity, it is the most recent member of the family, which otherwise became extinct at the end of the Carboniferous.