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    of Edestus grew teeth in curved blades or "whorls". In Edestus' case, only a single row of teeth occurred in the midline of each jaw, leading Edestus to...
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    fossils to Edestus, discussed the various hypotheses concerning the nature of Edestus fossils. Joseph Leidy, who originally described Edestus vorax, argued...
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    Sarcoprion, and Parahelicoprion, and the latter containing the genera Edestus, Lestrodus, and Metaxyacanthus. All eugeneodonts are thought to have been...
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  • 4–298.9 million years ago. There is a small gap in age between the latest Edestus and the first Campyloprion, which suggests that Campyloprion might have...
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    Phanerosteon was a Bony fish belonging to the extinct order Palaeonisciformes. Edestus was a large eugeneodontid fish that possessed two tooth whorls in its mouth...
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    include iconic genera, such as Helicoprion ("buzz-saw shark"), Ornithoprion, Edestus or Fadenia. Caseodus is one of the few eugeneodontid genera that survived...
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    from the Permian of Greenland. Similar to other eugeneodontids such as Edestus and Helicoprion, it was best known for its extremely bizarre tooth morphology...
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  • Paredestus ('near Edestus') is a monotypic genus of extinct eugeneodont holocephalan from the Early Triassic of Canada. The type and only species, P....
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    reduced state differs greatly from that of the eugeneodonts Helicoprion and Edestus, in which the palatoquadrates are large and specialized, and potentially...
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    species of Edestus, but is now considered a distinct genus based on morphological differences. Woodward, A.S. (1916). "On a new species of Edestus from the...
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