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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Ctenacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Cladodoides Maisey, 2001 |
| Species: | †C. wildungensis
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| †Cladodoides wildungensis (Jaekel, 1921)
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Cladodoides is a genus of extinct cartilaginous fish. It appeared in the Frasnian age of the late Devonian and possibly existed in the Tournaisian age of the early Carboniferous.
It has a well-described braincase and brain cavity, and has greatly informed our understanding of the skull, brain, nerves, and jaws of early sharks. Cladodoides is likely a cladodont shark. Remains have been found in Germany.
Six pentacuspid teeth, possibly belonging to Cladodoides wildungensis, have been found in the Tournaisian Laurel Formation, Australia.1
References
References
- Brett Roelofs, Milo Barham, Arthur J. Mory, Kate Trinajstics (January 2016). "Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous chondrichthyans from the Fairfield Group, Canning Basin, Western Australia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 19 (1): 1-28. doi:10.26879/583.
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- Maisey, John (2005). "Braincase of the Upper Devonian Shark Cladodoides Wildungensis (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii), with Observations on the Braincase in Early Chondrichthyans". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 288: 1–103. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)288<0001:BOTUDS>2.0.CO;2.