Columnaodus

Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Columnaodus is an extinct genus of hybodontiform (shark-like cartilaginous fish) that lived during the Mississippian.

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Columnaodus
Temporal range: Mississippian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Hybodontiformes
Genus: Columnaodus
Species:
C. witzkei
Binomial name
Columnaodus witzkei
Cicimurri et. al., 2024
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Distribution

Columnaodus witzkei fossils are known from the Burlington-Keokuk Bonebed on the border between Illinois and Iowa. It may have eaten crinoids, brachiopods and/or other shelled invertebrates.[1]

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