Erikodus
| Erikodus Temporal range: Permian
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontiformes |
| Family: | †Caseodontidae |
| Genus: | †Erikodus Nielsen, 1952 |
| Species: | †E. groenlandicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Erikodus groenlandicus Nielsen, 1932
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| Synonyms | |
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Agassizodus groenlandicus Nielsen, 1932 | |
Erikodus is an extinct genus of caseodontid eugeneodont from the Late Permian of Greenland. A single species, E. groenlandicus, is known, which was originally classified as a species of Agassizodus. The genus had a row of rounded, overlapping teeth along the midline (or symphysis) of both the upper and lower jaw, as well as rows of flat, plate-like, rectangular crushing teeth elsewhere in the mouth.