Pirodus

Pirodus
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: †Eugeneodontiformes
Family: †Caseodontidae
Genus: †Pirodus
Species:
†P. conicus
Binomial name
†Pirodus conicus
Lebedev, 2001

Pirodus is an extinct genus of caseodontid eugeneodont from the Carboniferous of Russia. The genus includes a single species, P. conicus, which is known only from a single, incomplete fossil of its lower teeth. These teeth were fused together and sat along the midline of the jaw.

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