Cretacladoides Temporal range: Valanginian
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Holotype tooth of Cretacladoides noricum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Genus: | †Cretacladoides Feichtinger et al. 2018 |
Type species | |
†Cretacladoides ogiveformis Feichtinger et al., 2018
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Species | |
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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.