Jiaodontus

Jiaodontus is an extinct genus of lonchidiid cartilaginous fish which existed in Liuhuanggou, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern China, during the late Jurassic (Oxfordian age).^[1] Fossils have been found in the Qigu Formation, China.^[1] It was first named by Stefanie Klug, Thomas Tütken, Oliver Wings, Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner and Thomas Martin in 2010 and the type species is Jiaodontus montaltissimus.^[1]

Jiaodontus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Oxfordian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	†Hybodontiformes
Family:	†Lonchidiidae
Genus:	†Jiaodontus Klug et al., 2010
Species
J. montaltissimus Klug et al., 2010 (type) J. vedenemus Klug et al., 2010