Plicatodus
Plicatodus is a prehistoric elasmobranch in the family Xenacanthidae that lived in Europe during the late Carboniferous and Early Permian Periods. It was described by Oliver Hampe in 1995, and the type species is Plicatodus jordani. The type locality for this genus is the Saar-Nahe basin.
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Xenacanthida |
| Family: | †Xenacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Plicatodus Hampe, 1995 |
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Orthacanthus plicatus (Fritsch, 1879) | |
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