Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Synonym: Acontiodus Pander 1856
Full reference: C. Pander. 1856. Monographie der fossilen Fische des silurischen Systems des Russisch-Baltischen Gouvernements.
Parent taxon: Acodontidae according to L. J. Pyle and C. R. Barnes 2002
See also Barnes et al. 1979 and Mùˆller and Hinz 1991
Sister taxa: Diaphorodus, Nealeodus, Pteracontiodus, Triangulodus, Tripodus, Tropodus
Subtaxa: Acodus acutus Acodus crassus Acodus delicatus Acodus deltatus Acodus erectus Acodus jonesi Acodus kechikaensis Acodus neodeltatus Acodus planus Acodus sigmoideus Acodus similaris Acontiodus malayensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (1: Ontario collection), Czechia (2), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Estonia (1), Malaysia (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (90: California, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio)
• Aluoja of Sweden (8)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Tennessee)
• Whiterockian of United States (10: Nevada)
• Billingen of Estonia (6)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (14), the Russian Federation (1)
• Dawan of China (3)
• Ordovician of Argentina (17), Australia (1), Canada (11: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), China (36), Estonia (13), Iran (5), Kazakhstan (2), Malaysia (7), Mexico (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (12), South Korea (3), Spain (2), Sweden (6), Thailand (2), United States (9: Nevada, New York, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Ibexian of United States (1: New York)
• Taoyuanian of China (2)
• Cambrian of Canada (1: Nunuvat), China (1)
Total: 276 collections including 303 occurrences
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