Pirodus is an extinct genus of Caseodontidae Eugeneodontida from the Carboniferous of Russia. The genus includes a single species, P. conicus, which is known only from a single, incomplete fossil of its lower teeth. These teeth were fused together and sat along the midline of the jaw.
Discovery
The
holotype specimen of
Pirodus was described by researcher Oleg Lebedev in a 2001 paper, and originated from the Shchurovo-Korobcheyevo Formation of
Moscow Oblast, Russia.
Description
Pirodus is known from a fragment of a tooth-whorl surrounded by
dermal denticles. The tooth-whorl of this taxon consisted of a single fused base (or
Dental anatomy) with multiple flattened, overlapping crowns protruding from it.
The denticles of the taxon are large and
Cone, and may have been fused to the teeth.
