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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Phoebodontiformes |
| Family: | †Phoebodontidae |
| Genus: | †Thrinacodus St. John and Worthen, 1875 |
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Thrinacodus is an extinct genus of basalelasmobranch, found worldwide from the Late Devonian-Lower Carboniferous. The type species isThrinacodus nanus.[1] Most species are only known from their tricuspid teeth.T. gracia, originally placed in the separate genusThrinacoselache from theSerpukhovian-agedBear Gulch Limestone, of what is nowMontana, is known from full body impressions, showing a long, slender eel-like body up to a metre in length, with an elongate rostrum.[2][3][4] Stomach contents ofT. gracia include remains of crustaceans and smallchondrichthyan fish (Harpagofututor andFalcatus).[2] It is a member of thePhoebodontiformes.[4]
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