Athrodon
Athrodon Temporal range: Kimmeridgian to Cenomanian
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Genus: | Athrodon Sauvage 1880
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Athrodon douvillei Sauvage 1880
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Athrodon is a genus of extinct pycnodontid that lived in shallow seas in what is now England and France from the Late Jurassic until the genus extinction during the start of the late Cretaceous. The various species are very similar in splenial bone and tooth morphology to Mesodon. Otherwise, no articulated or complete specimen is known: all fossils specimens are bone fragments and disarticulated teeth.
See also[]
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References[]
Categories:
- Pycnodontiformes genera
- Late Jurassic fish
- Jurassic bony fish
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Jurassic fish of Europe
- Cretaceous fish of Europe
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish stubs
- Jurassic fish stubs
- Cretaceous fish stubs