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), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (5), 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)
• Taoyuanian of China (2)
• Cambrian of Canada (1: Nunuvat), China (1)
Total: 273 collections including 299 occurrences
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