Phoebodontiformes

Phoebodontiformes is an extinct group of elasmobranchs (sensu lato), known from the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. It includes the genera Phoebodus, Diademodus and Thrinacodus.^[1] Phoebodus and Thrinacodus have slender, elongate bodies.^[2] Their teeth are tricuspate (bearing three cusps).^[2][3] Some studies have recovered the group as paraphyletic.^[4]

Phoebodontiformes Temporal range: Middle Devonian–Early Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Phoebodus
Thrinacodus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	†Phoebodontiformes Ginter et al. 2002
Family:	†Phoebodontidae Williams in Zangerl, 1985
Genera
Phoebodus Diademodus Thrinacodus

Jalodus and other members of the family Jalodontidae, which range from the Devonian to the Triassic, were formerly included in this order, but have subsequently been assigned to their own order, the Jalodontiformes.^[5]