Columnaodus
| Columnaodus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
| Genus: | †Columnaodus |
| Species: | †C. witzkei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Columnaodus witzkei Cicimurri et. al., 2024
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Columnaodus is an extinct genus of hybodontiform that lived during the Mississippian.
Distribution
[edit]Columnaodus witzkei fossils are known from the Burlington-Keokuk Bonebed on the border between Illinois and Iowa.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Cicimurri, David; Ciampaglio, Charles; Hoenig, Matthew; Shell, Ryan; Fuelling, Lauren; Peterman, David; Cline, Daniel A.; Jacquemin, Stephen (6 May 2024). "A Description of the New Hybodont Shark Genus, Columnaodus, from the Burlington and Keokuk Limestones (Carboniferous, Mississippian, Osagean) of Illinois and Iowa, USA". Diversity. 16 (5): 276. Bibcode:2024Diver..16..276C. doi:10.3390/d16050276. ISSN 1424-2818.
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