Fadenia

Fadenia
Temporal range: CarboniferousEarly Triassic,
Fadenia crenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Eugeneodontiformes
Family: Caseodontidae
Genus: Fadenia
Nielsen, 1932
Type species
Fadenia crenulata
Nielsen, 1932
Other species
  • F. gigas Eaton, 1962
  • F. makrothi? Geinitz, 1861
  • F. monscana Trautschold, 1874
  • F. uroclasmato Mutter & Neuman, 2008

Fadenia is an extinct genus of eugeneodontid holocephalian chondrichthyan from the Carboniferous Period of Missouri (United States), the Permian period of Greenland, and the Early Triassic epoch of British Columbia, Canada (Sulphur Mountain Formation).