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Cladodoides

Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes

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Cladodoides Temporal range: Late Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	†Ctenacanthiformes
Family:	†Ctenacanthidae
Genus:	†Cladodoides Maisey, 2001
Species:	†C. wildungensis
Binomial name
†Cladodoides wildungensis (Jaekel, 1921)

Cladodoides is a genusofextinct cartilaginous fish. It appeared in the Frasnian age of the late Devonian and possibly existed in the Tournaisian age of the early Carboniferous.

It has a well-described braincase and brain cavity, and has greatly informed our understanding of the skull, brain, nerves, and jaws of early sharks. Cladodoides is likely a cladodont shark. Remains have been found in Germany.

Six pentacuspid teeth, possibly belonging to Cladodoides wildungensis, have been found in the Tournaisian Laurel Formation, Australia.^[1]

• Maisey, John (2005). "Braincase of the Upper Devonian Shark Cladodoides Wildungensis (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii), with Observations on the Braincase in Early Chondrichthyans". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 288: 1–103. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)288<0001:BOTUDS>2.0.CO;2.

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