Biology:Athrodon

Short description: Extinct genus of fishes

Athrodon Temporal range: Kimmeridgian to Cenomanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Pycnodontiformes
Family:	Pycnodontidae
Genus:	Athrodon Sauvage 1880
Type species
Athrodon douvillei Sauvage 1880
Species
A. intermedius Woodward 1893 A. crassus Woodward 1893 A. jessoni Woodward 1895 A. boloniensis Sauvage 1880 A. profusidens (Woodward 1893) A. tenuis Woodward 1893 A. wittei (Sauvage 1880)
Synonyms
Mesodon profusidens Gaudry et al 1890 Mesodon wittei Frick 1875

Athrodon is an extinct genus of pycnodontid that lived in shallow seas in what is now England and France from the Late Jurassic until the genus' extinction during the start of the late Cretaceous. The various species are very similar in splenial bone and tooth morphology to Mesodon. Otherwise, no articulated or complete specimen is known: all fossil specimens are bone fragments and disarticulated teeth.

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

• A. S. Woodward 1916 The fossil fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations.

Wikidata ☰ Q4815673 entry