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Cladodont (from
Latin cladus,
meaning branch and Gr**** Odon,
meaning tooth) is the term for a
common category of
early Devonian shark known primarily...
- was
short and the wide
mouth was
equipped with a
series of long
conical cladodont-shaped teeth. The body was
covered in a few
placoid scales, but most of...
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possessed ornamented fin
spines at the
front of
their dorsal fins and
cladodont-type dentition, that is
typically of a
grasping morphology,
though some...
- cladus. The
latter term is an
affix found in
other modern words such as
cladodont (prehistoric
sharks with
branched teeth),
cladode (flattened leaf-like...
- holostyly). Like many
other early chondrichthyans,
Cladoselache had “
cladodont” teeth, with a
large and
sharp central cusp
surrounded by one or two pairs...
- Pfeil. pp. 1–168. Williams,
Michael E. (2001-07-20). "Tooth
retention in
cladodont sharks: with a
comparison between primitive grasping and swallowing, and...
- from a
singular species, A. flammeus. It was
described from
isolated cladodont teeth found in
deposits from the
upper Frasnian to
lower Fammenian of...
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Sciences Philadelphia (Series 2) 9:427-448 M. E. Williams. 1985. The "
Cladodont level"
sharks of the
Pennsylvanian black shales of
central North America...
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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...
- in the
family Ctenacanthidae. As the name implies, they are a type of
cladodont,
primitive sharks with
teeth designed to snag fish and
swallow them whole...
