Cochliodontiformes
| Cochliodontiformes Temporal range: Late Devonian to Late Permian
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| Preserved dentition of Cochliodus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Superorder: | Holocephalimorpha |
| Order: | †Cochliodontiformes Obruchev, 1953 |
| Type genus | |
| Cochliodus Agassiz, 1838
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| Families and genera | |
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Cochliodontiformes are an order of extinct holocephalans (historically referred to as bradyodonts) known from the Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods. Members of the order are believed to be durophagous benthic carnivores.