| Pirodus Temporal range: Carboniferous
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontiformes |
| Family: | †Caseodontidae |
| Genus: | †Pirodus |
| Species: | †P. conicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pirodus conicus Lebedev, 2001
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Pirodus is an extinct genus of caseodontid eugeneodont from the Carboniferous of Russia. The genus includes a single species, P. conicus, which is known only from a single, incomplete fossil of its lower teeth. These teeth were fused together and sat along the midline of the jaw.[1]
Discovery
[edit]The holotype specimen of Pirodus was described by researcher Oleg Lebedev in a 2001 paper, and originated from the Shchurovo-Korobcheyevo Formation of Moscow Oblast, Russia.[1]
Description
[edit]Pirodus is known from a fragment of a tooth-whorl surrounded by dermal denticles. The tooth-whorl of this taxon consisted of a single fused base (or root) with multiple flattened, overlapping crowns protruding from it.[1] The denticles of the taxon are large and conical, and may have been fused to the teeth.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ginter, Michał; Hampe, Oliver; Duffin, Christopher J. (2010). Handbook of paleoichthyology: teeth. München: F. Pfeil. p. 119. ISBN 978-3-89937-116-1.
- ^ Lebedev, Oleg A.; Popov, Evgeny V.; Bagirov, Sergey V.; Bolshiyanov, Igor P.; Kadyrov, Rail I.; Statsenko, Evgeny O. (2021-11-15). "The earliest chimaeriform fish from the Carboniferous of Central Russia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19 (12): 821–846. doi:10.1080/14772019.2021.1977732. ISSN 1477-2019.
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