Acanthodus Temporal range: Late Cambrian–Early Ordovician |
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W: Acanthodus uncinatus Furnish; lateral view of non-serrate suberectiform element, from upper part of middle Gasconade Dolomites at Phillips Quarry, X 50, USNM 498518. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Conodonta |
Order: | †Protopanderodontida |
Family: | †Acanthodontidae |
Genus: |
†Acanthodus Furnish, 1938 |
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Acanthodus is an extinct genus of conodonts.
Acanthodus humachensis and A. raqueli are from then Late Cambrian (late Furongian) or early Ordovician (Tremadocian) of the Santa Rosita Formation in Argentina.