''Cladocyclus'' (derived from the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

κλάδος/kládos ("branch") and κύκλος/kýklos ("circle")) is an extinct genus of Ichthyodectidae. It was a predatory fish of about in length, found in the

Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0.9 M ...

Romualdo and

Crato Formation The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous ( Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It is an important Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) for palaeontologists. The strata were laid down mostly duri ...

s of the

Araripe Basin The Araripe Basin () is a rift basin covering about ,Neto et al., 2013, p.1 in Ceará, Piauí and Pernambuco states of northeastern Brazil. It is bounded by the Patos and Pernambuco lineaments, and is situated east of the Parnaíba Basin, southwe ...

in northeastern Brazil. A new species, ''Cladocyclus pankowskii'', was discovered in the

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

Akfabou Formation of Morocco in 2007, and in the Upper Plattenkalk of

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.org The species ''Cladocyclus geddesi'' is known from the

Winton Formation The Winton Formation is a Cretaceous geological formation in central-western Queensland, Australia. It is late Albian to early Turonian in age. The formation blankets large areas of central-western Queensland. It consists of sedimentary rocks suc ...

of Australia.

Gallery

File:Cladocyclus gardneri 2.jpg, ''Cladocyclus gardneri'' File:Cladocyclus Vienna.jpg, Fossil in Vienna

References

Ichthyodectiformes Early Cretaceous fish Late Cretaceous fish Albian genus first appearances Cenomanian genus extinctions Cretaceous fish of Africa Cretaceous Morocco Fossils of Morocco Cretaceous fish of Europe Cretaceous Italy Fossils of Italy Cretaceous fish of South America Early Cretaceous animals of South America Cretaceous Brazil Fossils of Brazil Crato Formation Romualdo Formation Fossil taxa described in 1843 Taxa named by Louis Agassiz {{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub