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
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), the Czech Republic (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)
• Whiterockian of United States (10: Nevada)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Tennessee)
• Volkhov of Estonia (8), Sweden (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (14), the Russian Federation (1)
• Dawan of China (3)
• Ordovician of Argentina (13), Australia (1), Canada (11: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), China (21), Estonia (11), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (7), Mexico (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (2), Thailand (2), United States (8: Nevada, New York, Utah, Wyoming)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (4), China (14), Iran (5), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (6), South Korea (3), Sweden (5), United States (1: Virginia)
• Ibexian of United States (1: New York)
• Cambrian of Canada (1: Nunuvat), China (1)
• Taoyuanian of China (2)
Total: 275 collections including 301 occurrences
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