| Source Data | |
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| Rank | genus (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Hybodontiformes : Acrodontidae : Acrodus |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Acrodus | genus | belongs to Cestraciontidae | stated with evidence | Leidy, 1873 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Gestracionidae | stated without evidence | Alessandri, 1896 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Heterodontidae | stated without evidence | Hay, 1902 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Cestraciontidae | stated without evidence | Woodward, 1916 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Heterodontidae | stated without evidence | Jordan and Hanibal, 1923 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Acrodontidae | stated with evidence | Herman, 1975 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Cestraciontidae | stated with evidence | Sahni and Chhabra, 1976 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Hybodontidae | stated with evidence | Rieppel, 1981 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Acrodontidae | stated without evidence | Murry, 1989 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Acrodontidae | stated with evidence | Kindlimann, 1990 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Ctenacanthida | second hand | Sepkoski, 2002 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Hybodontoidea | implied | Irmis, 2005 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Acrodontidae | stated without evidence | Chrzastek, 2008 | | Acrodus | genus | belongs to Acrodontidae | stated with evidence | Ginter et al., 2010 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 32 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 299 - 296 Ma
Paleozoic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 59.2 - 56.0 Ma
Paleocene |
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| Environment | marine (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Chondrichthyes) |
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| Diet | carnivore (based on Chondrichthyes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | L. Agassiz. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 11). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel |
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| Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 11). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, 73-140 |
| Leidy J. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1, 1-358 |
| Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1, 1-613 |
| Alessandri G. Ricerche sui pesci fossili de Parana, Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino 31, 715-730 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Woodward A. S. (1916) The fossil fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations, Palaeontographical Society, London 1915, 1-48 |
| Jordan D. S., Hanibal H. (1923) Fossil sharks and rays of the Pacific slope of North America, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 22, 27-63 |
| Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816 |
| Herman J. (1975) Les Selaciens de sterrains neocretaces and paleocenes de Belgique and des contrees limitrophes Elements d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale, Memoires pour servier a l'explications des Cartes geologiques et minieres de la Belgique 15, 1-401 |
| Sahni A., Chhabra N. L. (1976) Microfish remains from certain Triassic Sections in the Kasmir and Kumaun Himalayas, Proceedings of the VI Indian Colloquium of Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy 6, 218-224 |
| Rieppel O. (1981) The Hybodontiform Sharks from the Middle Triassic of Mte. San Giorgio, Switzerland, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 161, 324-353 |
| Thomson K. S. (1982) An Early Triassic hybodont shark from northern Madagascar, Postilla 186, 1-16 |
| Maisey J. G. (1987) Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic shark Hybodus reticulatus (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), with comments on hybodontid systematics, American Museum Novitates 2878, 1-19 |
| Murry P. A. (1989) Microvertebrate fossils from the Petrified Forest and Owl Rock Members (Chinle Formation) in Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona, Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, 249-277 |
| Kindlimann R. (1990) Ein Nachweis von Acrodus nobilis Agassiz aus dem Sinemurien der Tongrube Gruhalde, Frick, Kt. Aargau (Nordschweiz), Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 83, 829-843 |
| Johns M. J. (1997) Systematics, in Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy of middle and late Triassic Elasmobranch Ichthyoliths from Northeastern British Columbia, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 502, 1-238 |
| Mutter R. J. (1998) Zur systematischen Stellungh einiger Bezahnugsreste von Acrodus georgii sp. nov. (Selachii, Hybodontoidea) aus der Grenzbitumenzone (Mittlere Trias) des Monte San Giorgio (Kanton Tessin, Schweiz), Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 91, 513-519 |
| Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560 |
| Irmis R. B. (2005) The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona, In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, & R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9, 63-88 |
| Chrzastek A. (2008) Vertebrate remains from the Lower Muschelkalk of Raciborowice Górne (North-Sudetic Basin, SW Poland), Geological Quarterly 52, 225-238 |
| Ginter M., Hampe O., et al (2010) Chondrichthyes, Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth, Handbook of Paleoichthyology 3D, 1-168 |
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