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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	34473	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34473

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Orodontiformes : Orodontidae : Orodus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
class	Chondrichthyes	Huxley 1880
subclass	Holocephali
order	Orodontiformes	Zangerl 1981
family	Orodontidae	de Koninck 1878
genus	Orodus	Agassiz 1838

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orodus	genus	belongs to Cestraciontidae	stated with evidence	Woodward, 1889
Orodus	genus	belongs to Orodontidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Orodus	genus	belongs to Orodontidae	stated with evidence	Zangerl, 1981
Orodus	genus	belongs to Orodontida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Orodus	genus	belongs to Orodontidae	stated with evidence	Nelson, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

359 - 323 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

290 - 272 Ma
Permian

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Holocephali)

Diet

carnivore (based on Holocephali)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. Agassiz. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 11). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Orodus alleni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus carinatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus catenatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus cinctus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus colletti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus corrugatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Orodus daedalus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus decussatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus elegantulus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus elongatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus fastigiatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus gibbosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus gibbus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus greggi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orodus intermedius ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	306 Ma Carboniferous	306 Ma Carboniferous
Orodus ipeunaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Orodus major ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus mammillaris ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus micropterygius ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Orodus minutus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus moniliformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	323 Ma Carboniferous	323 Ma Carboniferous
Orodus neglectus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus ornatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus parallelus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus parvulus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus plicatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus ramosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Orodus tenuis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus tuberculatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus turgidus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus variabilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Orodus varicostatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Orodus Agassiz p. 96
1889	Orodus Woodward p. 230
1902	Orodus Hay p. 295
1963	Orodus Jordan p. 595
1981	Orodus Zangerl p. 93
2002	Orodus Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Orodus Nelson p. 43
2010	Orodus Chahud et al. p. 532
2010	Orodus Ginter et al. p. 110

References

Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 11). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, 73-140

Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1, 1-613

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Zangerl R. (1981) Chondrichthyes I: Paleozoic Elasmobranchii, Handbook of Paleoichthyology 3a

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Nelson J. S. (2006) , Fishes of the world, 4th edition, 1-601

Chahud A., Fairchild T. R., et al (2010) Chondrichthyans from the base of the Irati Formation (Early Permian, Paraná Basin), São Paulo, Brazil, Gondwana Research 18, 528-537

Ginter M., Hampe O., et al (2010) Chondrichthyes, Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth, Handbook of Paleoichthyology 3D, 1-168

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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