Lestrodus is an extinct genus of edestid fish that lived during the Late Carboniferous. It contains one valid species, L. newtoni, which is known from a single tooth whorl from the Millstone Grit of England. It was originally named as a species of Edestus,[1] but is now considered a distinct genus based on morphological differences.[2][3][4]
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| Tooth whorl of Lestrodus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontida |
| Family: | †Edestidae |
| Genus: | †Lestrodus Obruchev, 1953[2] |
| Species: | †L. newtoni
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| †Lestrodus newtoni | |
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References
edit- ^ a b Woodward, A.S. (1916). "On a new species of Edestus from the Upper Carboniferous of Yorkshire". The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 72 (285): 1–5. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1916.072.01-04.02. S2CID 129517173.
- ^ a b Obruchev, D.V. (1953). "Izuchenie edestid i raboty A.P. Karpinskogo [Study of edestids and the work of A.P. Karpinsky]". Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta. 45: 1–85.
- ^ Ginter, M.; Hampe, O.; Duffin, C. (2010). Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Volume 3D. Chondrichthyes. Paleozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth. Munich: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. ISBN 978-3-89937-116-1.
- ^ Tapanila, L.; Pruitt, J. (2019). "Redefining species concepts for the Pennsylvanian scissor tooth shark, Edestus". PLOS ONE. 14 (9): e0220958. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1420958T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220958. PMC 6726245. PMID 31483800.
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