Antliodus

Antliodus is an extinct genus of petalodont shark from the Carboniferous Period. It is known from the Mississipian of the United States, Britain, and Belgium[1][2] Though many species have been reported in the past, a lack of recent revisions means some may be dubious.[3]

Antliodus
Temporal range: Mississippian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Order:
Petalodontiformes
Family:
Petalodontidae
Genus:
Antliodus

Newberry & Worthen, 1866
Species
  • A. cucullus
  • A. minutus
  • A. parvulus
  • A. politus
  • A. sarculus
  • A. similis
  • A. simplex
  • A. sulcatus
  • A. truncatus
  • A. robustus
  • A. gracilis
  • A. arctuatus

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Antliodus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  2. Duffin, Christopher J.; Ward, David J. (October 2017). "A new janassid petalodont chondrichthyan from the Early Carboniferous of Derbyshire, UK". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 128 (5–6): 809–814. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.06.008. ISSN 0016-7878.
  3. Hoenig, M. M. J. (2019). Chondrichthyan Diversity within the Burlington-Keokuk Fish Bed of Southeast Iowa and Northwest Illinois (Mississippian: Osagean) (Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University).


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