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Arganodus

Arganodus

Martin, 1979

GBIF:165473845

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Characteristics

Extant Late Triassic-Late Jurassic

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Descriptions(1)

Arganodus is an extinct genus of Ceratodontidae (lungfish). Its fossils have been found in the Redonda Formation, New Mexico, the Tacuarembó Formation of Uruguay, and the Cumnock Formation, North Carolina, although the North Carolinian specimens are smaller than most recorded specimens. Fossils have also been uncovered in the Petrified Forest National Park. It was first named by Martin in 1979, and contains two species, A. dorotheae and A. atlantis. Arganodus was probably similar to modern lungfish, and lived in underwater burrows during dry periods until monsoons occurred.
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Arganodus (bottom) and other fish from the Chinle Formation

Imageimage/jpeg© Petrified Forest from Petrified Forest, USACREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 2.0 UNPORTEDChinle Formation Fish Uploaded by FunkMonk

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Source Information

English Wikipedia - Species Pages

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Species pages extracted from the English Wikipedia article XML dump from 2022-08-02. Multimedia, vernacular names and textual descriptions are extracted, but only pages with a taxobox or speciesbox template are recognized. See https://github.com/mdoering/wikipedia-dwca for details.

Döring M (2022). English Wikipedia - Species Pages. Wikimedia Foundation. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c3kkgh accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

LicensePublished 8/2/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
165473845
Dataset Key
cbb6498e-8927-405a-916b-576d00a6289b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
4836917
Taxon ID
18440224
Last Crawled
6/4/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026