Gilliodus
| Gilliodus Temporal range: Carboniferous | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontiformes |
| Family: | †Eugeneodontidae |
| Genus: | †Gilliodus Zangerl, 1981 |
| Type species | |
| * †Gilliodus orvellei Zangerl, 1981 | |
| Other species | |
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Gilliodus is an extinct genus of eugeneodontid cartilaginous fish from the Carboniferous of North America. Two species, G. orvellei and G. peyeri, are known. The postcranial skeleton of the genus is identical in appearance to the distantly related caseodontid Caseodus, and the genus is differentiated by the anatomy of its teeth. An isolated tooth from the Late Devonian of Poland has been suggested to belong to Gilliodus, but later authors have concluded that this tooth more likely belonged to a different order of fishes.